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a great job [Music] good evening this is the April 2nd 2025 Seminal County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting please stand for the
Pledge of Allegiance i pledge algiance 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 a public excuse me public hearing items acted upon by this board are referred to the board of county commissioners for further consideration
board members present tonight are me Chairman Mike Loren Vice Chairman Tim Smith Commissioner Dan Lopez Commissioner Carissa Lahan Commissioner Lordis Aguer Commissioner
Brandy Ayapollo and Commissioner Richard German staff present tonight are Jose Gomez development services director nissa Borert deputy county manager
attorney it says manager on my as soon as I said it it didn't sound right i was correct that excuse me joy Giles principal planner hillary Peyton planner tammy
Bushwood PNC 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 participant 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 be given the 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 start with the agenda we'll start with the acceptance and approval of proof of publication do I have a motion so moved second all those
in favor those opposed motion passes next we'll approve of the minutes um board do you have any changes do I have a motion motion to approve second all those in favor i all right motion passes next we
will start out with our first item technical review item Encore at Hillview Preliminary Subdivision Plan joy Giles good evening Joy Giles development services planning manager the applicant is requesting approval of the Encore
Hillview preliminary subdivision plan for 28 town home lots on approximately 3.34 acres zoned R3A multiple family dwelling located on the north side of Hillview Drive east of State Road 404 434 the subject property has a
highdensity residential feature land use designation which allows a maximum of 20 dwelling units per net buildable acre however the R3A multiple family dwelling zoning classification limits the density to uh 10 dwelling units per net builtable
acre the site is located within the city of Altoont Springs utility service area and will be required to connect to public utilities the development will access onto Hill Drive and the internal rightway will be privately owned and maintained by the HOA a staff finds the PSP to be in
compliance with chapter 35 of the Semino County Land Development Code and in compliance with the existing land use and zoning designations of the property therefore staff recommends approval of the preliminary subdivision plan for the Encore Hillview subdivision containing
28 town home lots on 3.34 acres zoned R3A located on the north side of Hillview Drive east of State Road 434 thank you thanks uh questions from the board seeing none is the applicant present
yes would you like to approach please name and address zachary Miller at 8241 via Bonita Street in Sanford anything to add or Not at all no we're we're in compliance with future land use um seems like a pretty easy easy deal so okay any question i'm available for any
questions so does the board have any questions for applicants seeing none all right i'll open it up for a motion makes sense i'll make a motion i'll second i'll recommend the approval of the preliminary subdivision
plan for the Encore uh at Hillview subdivision containing 28 uh residential lots on approximately 3.34 acres zoned R3A multiple family dwelling located at the north side of Hillview Drive approximately a quarter mile east of
State Road 434 i'll second all those in favor those opposed seeing none motion passes all right moving on to our public hearing
items 2825 Walden's Pond Cove special exemption hillary Peyton presenting good evening hillary Peyton Planning and Development this item is a request for a special exception for 2825 Walden's Pond Cove for an existing assisted living
facility located within the Mandarin subdivision in Longwood to increase from 6 to eight residents in the A1 zoning district on one acre located on the west side of Walden Pond Cove the assisted living facility known as Aeros Senior Care employs four staff
members to provide roundthe-clock care for their non-driving elderly residents the structure is a 2393 ft fourbedroom single um single family residence the applicant's intent is to have two residents for each bedroom without any structural modifications to the
facility in compliance with the Semino County Land Development Code section 30.3.5 community meeting procedures the applicant conducted a community meeting on December 21st 2024 details of the community meeting have been provided in the agenda package
section 30.3.1.5 of the Seminal County 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 only meets two of the 10 criteria the facility currently
houses six residents is within an existing single family residential subdivision is character with the typical occupancy and use in a single family residential subdivision and is precluded by Florida statute from zoning regulations approval of the special exception allowing for eight residents would then deem the facility
non-residential and trigger additional requirements for the property and structure to make it align with a commercial use facility such as signage parking and sprinkler systems the existing trend of development in the area is suburban estate single family residential in character and therefore would not be compatible with a higher
resident count commercial use facility the additional residents would incur additional trips by employees visitors medical professionals ambulance transportation and other vehicle traffic through this residential subdivision to support the additional residents needs therefore would create an unduly adverse
effects on traffic patterns movements and volumes throughout the subdivision this property is located on an interior local road of an established suburban estates single family residential subdivision without the means of easy access to public infrastructure to support a commercial
level assisted living facility use the comprehensive plan intends for the property to act as a buffer between urban development and rural area and not for non-residential facility and therefore it's not consistent with the comprehensive plan in addition to the imposition of
additional traffic upon the residents of the subdivision the proposed increase of residents would require the assisted living facility to conform to the additional standards um and would create the appearance of a commercial facility while located within the subdivision therefore the granting of the special
exception would adversely affect the public's interest section 30.6.10.3 10.3 of the land development code states that assisted living facilities may be approved by the BCC as a special exception provided that in addition to all of the other findings that it does
not create an overconentration of such areas or substantially alter the nature and character of the area although the location does not create an overconentration Florida statutes 419.001 001 subsection 3C3 states that a home that is located within 500 ft of an
area of single family residential zoning substantially alters the nature and character of the area this facility is surrounded by single family homes within an established community and the additional requirements of the facility with over six beds requires additional standards to comply with causing the
nature and character of the single family home to be altered the existing structure is currently 2393 square feet and as the applicant is not proposing to expand the structure um so therefore the proposed structure is
compatible with the neighborhood and its physical size the proposed increase of beds for this assisted living facility would require commercial use standards such as parking buffering and signage that would not be in character with the rural zoning classification it would create additional I'm sorry additional
traffic to the location that would be intensive in nature and not compatible with the concept of a lowdensity rural land use the subject property is serviced by Sunshine Water and has a septic system in place sunshine Water provided a letter verifying services to the address the Florida Department of
Health issued a letter approving the request for an increased eight beds therefore the property does have access to adequate levels of public services seven letters of opposition were received from the property owners within the subdivision and forwarded to the board for your
consideration staff request that the board of county commissioners deny the special exception and associated development order for an 8 bed assisted living facility in the A1 zoning district on one acre on the east side of W code this concludes my presentation built for any questions
thank you for that um board any questions for Go ahead um two questions first you mentioned it was septic right you know the location of the septic is it in the front i don't know let me see if it's on looking at the aerial it almost appears that it might be because
then that ties into my second question is would be the parking you know so four staff members uh eight potential people at two people per bedroom um unrelated individuals right um I'm thinking that's the the current parking situation
doesn't seem adequate they're not um driving um residents but but then family or or visitors right i'm thinking worst case scenario what our code requires is to have a half of a parking space for an assisted living facility for each bed so that we would only require four spaces i
see okay that's all I got can I on the question on the This is maybe a little off on the Seminal County denial development order that we have here the copy is that May 13 2025 that's correct that's how that goes okay so
that's for a future yeah that will be the date of the board of county commissioners meeting where they would make the final decision they would make the Okay just a clarification on why we have that yes any other questions for staff all right is the applicant present yes okay please
approach and state your name and address um Carol McIntyre um owner operator for Arrow Scenicare at 2025 Walden Ponds Co and would you like to discuss your item or add anything or
Well um there is a growing need for um additional um beds for the elderly as you as there well you may not know but or I should say there is in the history of America the largest population of
baby boomers who have retired and continue to retire um so if we have assisted living we're all capped at six in Semino County for obvious reasons and if everyone was able to I just started change star with one just able to take
one person or two extra it would really help um to solve a problem not asking four or five i'm only asking um for two extra beds and as it relates to parking no one drives um so we're talking about maybe four extra visits from families
per month okay at this time is there any questions from the board okay i I How many employees do you have at any one time in the facility um we do
8 hour shifts from 8 to 8 and within the shifts we have um two employees um per shift um one from 8 to 8 one from 8 to 2 every day i was just looking at the aerial that
was provided to us and it has three cars in the driveway so um I assume if you expand maybe there'll be more cars on on that day it was probably a family member who was there um one of our employees
she doesn't drive she takes Uber um as the administrator I drive I'm there um so you know we have suff we we have never had an issue with parking we have a garage and we have adequate parking space within a driveway
how often um how often um per month would you say you get not just family visitors but medical personnel ambulance okay transportation um we have a doctor on staff she comes out once per month to
see all the residents and um ambulance we we don't have a cap on that we'll go months without an ambulance and then in one week we'll have two occurrences uh we had one uh last week you know person was having some mild strike um stroke
symptoms so we had to send them to the hospital cuz we are non-medical um so anything medical we have to send them out i do have a copy of our signing log so you could see a uh the flow of traffic of visitors that come in on a
daily basis or month we you know I have four months worth of um visitors log to show to see the traffic pattern and flow would anybody like to see that or I believe you okay are you asking that it
be submitted into evidence or just offering to show it um if you if you'd like to submit it you if you only have one copy you can submit it to the cler clerk or you can email yeah I will submit it okay okay sure any other questions for the
applicant seeing none okay that's it um I guess in that case we'll open it up to public comments if you don't have anything else to share right now sure you'll have a chance to rebuttal afterwards okay so do I go back you could sit back yes thank you thank you so much
all right so I do have some uh well we had some emails that came in that were opposed to this we also have um a number of uh public comment cards so we'll uh go ahead and start going through those um probably ask uh start with Ry
uh Cedarhawk was Ray there if you'd like to come up and make a comment what was his name again ray yeah 1720 Sandwood 1720 yes sir that's Yeah if you could uh state your name and address that'd be great my name is Ray
Sat my address is 1720 Sunwood Drive Longwood i live in Mandarin subdivision across the street from New Neighbor and uh I guess uh I just wanted to share my personal experience if uh if I'm not on
time limit uh I bought this house uh 23 years ago and uh we had some family and friends in the neighborhood and um he said why don't you come here and uh and um maybe buy a house one day here
so went to check the subdivision and said there is no HOA and but everybody's very responsible they take off their lawns and other issues and we don't have any problem and uh and this is the neighbors
way far from each other and if you interested maybe one day you want to buy a house here believe it or not a month later I bought a house in Mandarin subdivision across the street from our new neighbor uh my background is I'm
stay certified in four areas general contractor roofing contractor mobile home and u home inspection and I'm here pretty much every um month pulling permit from semary county and for last
20 years I've been pulling permit so the what happened after the the new owner purchase the property he residents of the mand subdivision contact me through Texas emailed and
some knocked my house and said you uh contractor you engineer been in need your help to resolve this issue we have we concerned uh be concerned about this uh new project coming up assisted living maybe
you can go to seminary county and talk to uh building department and see how we can resolve this issue and get more information so I came here went to planning department they explained to me
that um they've been uh getting information but they're not planning to pull a permit there is a process you have to go through before the and they have to put a sign in our subdivision before we have a meeting with
commissioners and uh we didn't see any sign but uh we got the message that we have to come here today and explain and u so pretty much uh and the neighbors concerned about the
traffic the codes and uh Believe it or not uh I decided to uh as a contractor home owner I decided to uh put addition to my house in front of garage and my neighbor and my house is 45 ft away from
my house and uh I paid the architect for the drawing and then I they said uh unfortunately I I fall in 10 in to my setback and I have to go in front I said that i'm sorry i'm going to have to stop
you there because your three minutes are up unless you want to summarize up um a little bit more yeah sorry yeah i need a couple more minutes if not um yeah everybody everybody gets three minutes and Oh okay you have more yeah anything
else to Yeah is uh like I said they very concerned they they calling me they getting information and I got all the information they said looks like the new owner been doing this on regular basis
they they buy this sort of uh they look for uh properties with no HOA and they purchase uh these um places to use as a assisted living as a business okay thank you was there any question just to
clarify he's against right yeah yeah okay uh Santa George at uh 1792 and this also um opposed and you you said no comment or would you like to comment nabil Gurgis I
would like to have a few couple of comments uh I've been living in this sir could you just over here over here hi Um could you just state your name and address for the record please nabil Gerggas 1792 Sunwood Boulevard Longwood
Florida 32779 thank you i My wife and myself have been living in this great community for 43 years i'm the patriarch of the the community we loved it even a friend of mine who lives in
Heathrow he came and visited me he said "I love this community much better than Heathrow." And here all of the sudden we find out living uh assisted living in our
community nothing against elder people i am old myself but when we lived in when I signed the contract with the for uh seminary county we are not supposed to have
business in our house or have a truck or vehicle that has the name of the business uh in the driveway then all of the sudden we have this assisted living this is a business this is not a
sympathetic to elder people couple of one point which I think you mentioned it which is the visitors as a family I have a friends and visitor and family visit two or
three a week here we have eight each one has a family and friends how many and this puts a lot of in other words if if I have two or three a week
then 8 will have 8 * 3 24 a week that's unacceptable and this is too much traffic for for our community it is dangerous for our uh uh the kids school kids and things like that
uh in addition to to the noise that's coming from the uh uh ambulances and she mentioned the the applicant mentioned two a week two a week we would we would like to see a
whole year not one month or not one week because this the uh uh the workers the uh medical assistant and the county visits to to check on the
code and uh many many other traffic coming to this community and this disturbs our peace and quiet in the our community thank you and we elected you
to do our wishes and what's good for us please remember that thank you any questions all right we will proceed uh next one up also opposed Elaine
Scott please come up and state your name and address please chairman uh do you mind if I just make a clarification for the record for maybe the audience members um audience members I just want to let you know that um the
state allows for these homes in byite in residential communities for up to six people so whether or not this if this is approved today it would be for eight people not six people it it doesn't go
away and also I'll add that what the planning and zoning board's job is is to review this and the criteria that we have in the code and then they make a recommendation to the board of county commissioners and the board of county commissioners make the final determination at another public meeting
which will be in May I think May 13th so I just want to let everybody know that you know the um it's not considered you know operating a business per se by the state they say yes you can have these within the neighborhoods the county doesn't control that portion of it what
we do control what we can control is whether or not someone meets the criteria to exceed those six people so I just wanted to kind of clarify that for the record so everybody understands that you know if it's not approved it will still exist it will just have six
residents instead of two residents thank you thank you for that clarification you're welcome no uh Elaine Scott 2816 Walden Spawn Cove uh Longwood 32779 i live adjacent across the street adjacent to um the home uh I
think 2022 we were here when they initially became facility for six and I think right now the concern is and what has been shared of course is that it is a residential community that the traffic
has and been an issue the emergency care has been an issue but more so and I have a personal note is that my father at one point was in this type of facility and to know that an owner would want to
increase it from six to eight to bring on board additional seniors our parents into such a crammed cramp um condition to me is unconscionable
um they have individual needs medical and otherwise family needs other and otherwise and just to say that historically we're at a point now where baby boomers are increasing in number and increasing care and need i'm trying to put them somewhere does not make these homes that they were not designed
for this to be that somewhere i have lived there for 27 and a half years do I know the floorprints of each of these homes no my child probably knew knew them a whole lot better than I did going in and out and I can say yes you could have a family of eight but a family of eight is not are
does not constitute eight seniors with different medical cares am I on that block yes have I seen traffic yes have I seen ambulances uh emergency vehicles yes my neighbor who is not here I'm not intentionally speaking for him he is awaken at all early hours of the morning
receiving packages with um medical devices medical equipment not for him for the house next door something that he has had to endure since this has occurred yes I am opposed to um the eight i understand that you
can have six that's not a problem because we've lived with that but the increase is inconable at this time especially for the care that I believe that they definitely would be entitled to that they would not be able to receive and as far as what she was saying you know 8 hour shift she said 8 to 8 that's a 12-h hour shift that's
people coming and going all times we have children on our block we have traffic on our block that we really have never been accustomed to because it is a quiet residential area and that's what all of us from 43 years to 28 and a half years that's what we what we want that's what we want to continue and thank you
for clarifying okay if they can have six that's fine that's what they have had additional to me is just a money grab it is not healthcare it's trying to take advantage of a situation because as you said historically we are now in a position where we now have more baby boomers and we need somewhere for them
to be just not in that home thank you thank you for that those are questions next one um looks like Nabal George did I get that right i already Oh no
okay that works um Richard 1724 she fills out a car oh okay so you'll be speaking i'm not Richard
yeah i'm Eileen his wife okay um Eileen Manani 1724 Sunwood Drive okay i put in a form right after him I guess okay i I just want to um clarify we received notice not notice um the community is
very upset about assisted living in the area and um we got an email saying that there was on the agenda tonight was 2825 Walden's Pond and the other being Sunwood Drive so that's why we came in
we were not sure if we're really supposed to be here today or not but just to voice um a little bit of our opinion um we live directly across the street from the structure that they're going they're considering or that's approved for an assisted living this is what I'm hearing tonight it's approved
for six beds and there's confusion about um since there was never any formal variance or planning board meeting about this this is I mean that it just happens somebody sells their house and you can
turn around and make an assisted living there i don't understand how that works you want to finish your comments we can ask questions we can answer your questions after your Okay well the comments basically are that we're concerned about that the the property
that I'm saying is not in a area it's the first house you see when you come into the development okay can I just clarify are you talking about this property here walden's no that's what I said that's why I'm not even sure if we're supposed to be speaking i don't want to take up the time if there's
going to be another hearing um no so this hearing is specifically for this one request on Walden's Pond Cove exactly yeah so um so my question I guess after my statement is there going to be
a hearing for the property at 1725 Sunwood um I don't know where that is off hand we're calling about it we've been calling about it other neighbors have What we can do is if you want to I mean planning and zoning our development services staff can look at that and get
with you after the hearing and let you know i already Well clarify the problem is work has begun on the property i live directly across the street okay so the issue is that we have to keep the record clear to this one
property in the middle of a quasi time for these other people that are here for Walden Bond but we want to make sure that our voices are heard for this other matter and you can Hillary can take you over and answer your questions that's fine like I said I don't want to waste
the board's time i don't want to waste the other people here so okay that's that was my comment about this were we even supposed to be here tonight no we haven't received anything for this Sunday i can show you the eye maybe we could You guys could just take
it to the side i hope we see you when the other matter comes okay thank you um I have one more that uh it's questionable whether or not they wanted to make a comment it's uh Mariva um Wade
at 2829 it wasn't Was that a yes or no it's up to you obviously didn't really choose which one very short okay yeah so please come up to the podium and state your name and address for the
record please thank you i'm Marva Wade and I'm directly next door 2829 Walden Spanco i'm a retired nurse i am aware of
the ability and need for an ALF so I'm going to say that right up front uh the the previous uh I think the owner I'm not sure if they still the owner I'll just say that but they operated I did not have a
problem it was done very quietly and respectfully I noticed new people and I inquired and I realized oh so we're doing it again with just different people but we're still okay I I don't
have any issues with that when I heard of the plan to increase bed that's when I became uh curious because my structure is I I believe the same as this
structure in question and that would be very cramped i'm in agreement with my neighbor for that amount of people it would probably create some difficulty providing personal care for so many
people in the smaller rooms so that was my concern it's logistics i have no problem with someone trying to make a living providing some kind of care like I said I'm a retired nurse but I worry about the the increase as it is right
now I'm perfectly fine with it i don't have any issues no noise no nothing but the increase bothers me because I'm not sure how that will impact in the community and also on care so that's all
I have to say thank you thank you so I think we got through all the public comment cards was there anybody else that wanted to speak that didn't fill out a form or that I didn't get to on this i'm seeing that's no all right um I
will close the public comments and ask for the applicant to please approach and I have a question you have a chance so go ahead staff um what is uh Joy or or Hillary uh what would the signage that
would be required what size location what would that be like in the transition from uh to the commercial usage with 85th i'd have to sorry I'd have to look at our sign code um it would just depend on what they propose i
believe our sign code would be two linear feet for every one every foot of building frontage so I'm not sure what their frontage is and that's what they would be maxed at that they wouldn't necessarily have to have it that large however large that is
the minimum requirement would be We don't have a minimum requirement so so changing it to a commercial usage doesn't necessarily imply signage because the staff report says um to make it align with the to as a
commercial use facility such as signage parking sprinkler systems it doesn't have to but they can oh okay i see okay okay perfect thank you but the sprinklers um they would be required okay thank you you have
I've already closed public comment i'm sorry can I Can I ask a question yeah absolutely who inspects you um from Are you inspected by say the state are you licensed um yes we are inspected by AKA the
Healthcare Administration um we're inspected by the fire department so as it relates to signage as it is now we're not allowed to based on fire code they don't allow us to have any type of um signage because we must be in integrity in the community um sprinklers is
mandatory we already have sprinklers alarm system mandatory uh we would not be licensed unless those things are in place it's it's managed whether we have six or whether we have 10 beds and as a um precedence already in Semino County
um there is an assisted living 13 beds and it's in a residential neighborhood allstars um assisted living and um it's in a residential neighborhood it's in a a community and they they've been approved um for 13 beds um as it relates
to some of the um first of all I want to say thank you for the time and the space to all the commissioners for all the grieviances and just the voice opinion and concerns and for everyone to get a better understanding of who we are and what we do um thanks for the clarity cuz I when I
read some of the rebuttal letters I felt like some of the um neighbors they didn't even know that we were there so I wasn't sure if they were referring to us or someone else um so based on the comments I realized that there's another assisted living and guest getting ready
to be started in the neighborhood so it makes sense in terms of some of the letters that were received so we have very minimal adverse effect on the neighborhood um as it relates to traffic traffic on a whole in the neighborhood has increased because more people are
transacting from home correct you have um people working from home so you have FedEx coming in you have um Amazon you have Kroger um so it's not just our emergency vehicle and as I mentioned
before because we're dealing with life and it's so unpredictable we will go months six seven months without an emergency vehicle and then one week we may have two we don't know it's very very unpredictable but traffic on a whole in the neighborhood has increased because people are working from home a
lot more transacting is happening from home so it's not just from our facility we're towards the end of the culde-sac and many times people drive towards the end and turn around and and go out so it's not it's really not um just from
our our facility um also as it relates to our neighbor being awakened hours of the night with packages we have no control over um what a postman does or doesn't do we also receive mail for
residents that doesn't belong to us um so we have no control over that and it's it's he mentioned it and it it occurred once twice the most but it's not like a frequent frequent thing but we have no control over that if a if a a mailband doesn't read um the package and the
address correctly we don't have any control over that and we don't have packages being delivered every day at late hours so those were just um uh some of my concern we've been the the home has been around for 14 years
um I took over the last um 18 months and honestly it's a great neighborhood very quiet and we we aim at maintaining the integrity of the neighborhood and um and the neighbors you know being in agreement with with the neighbors so I
don't know if there are any more questions but yeah I'll open it up to Anybody have questions for the applicant okay I do i do um so I I'm I still keep going back to the whole the parking uh with it you know with the the staff
members and uh you currently have six residents adding on two additional residents i understand that the traffic currently probably isn't that uh severe but the whole purpose of coding of zoning laws rules and regulations is for worst case scenarios and um so I'm just
wondering uh with adding on two additional residents and if visitation does su suddenly increase for any reason when we're talking about adults here with loved ones and and hopefully they have people that are willing to to come visit them and and check on them make
sure making sure that they're okay um how how what are your plans to handle this parking situation um my thoughts go back to that septic system is it in the front it's in the front of the garage the driveway
yeah the septic is right there front of the garage okay yeah so um honestly we haven't had any issues with parking the the most cars we have had at any given time is three four the most um we
haven't had any issues um we've only had one event which was the brand opening we have a garage space we have one two three um in the driveway alone we could have three four cars easily fit in the driveway we We don't We don't have I am
the um my other worker she works on the weekends and she drives so the workers with the cars only one worker with a car everyone else and if we have two workers we move down we we we don't have an issue with parking because the residents they do not drive so was there a
specific need or reason then to add on two additional residents onto this property um we again as I stated in the beginning there is a need there's a growing need understand the overall and and I I I I welcome the idea of ALFs i think they're they're much very much
needed but I'm just wondering for this specific property was there a specific need or reason why you're asking for two additional ones we have had many um inquiries and we have to turn people away um because we're full once we get to six that's it we're full so that's
when the idea came up let's see if we can expand um to two and people may say well two is not going to make a difference but if everyone does one even at least one more it's it's cutting away at the at the problem but it's that's that's the reason you know we it's a
vulnerable population we provide exceptional care because we're small so they get that personalized attention opposed to the big box so a lot of people are buying more into the smaller communities um because of the care level of care that their loved ones receive
yeah so that's that's the reason and we are in compliance in terms of code um from the state um as it relates to the number the square footage in the home and the the room sizes and I welcome anyone it's we have an open door policy
after 10:00 you're in the neighborhood you want to stop by you could pop in we have nothing to hide you could come in at any time and see who we are and what we do thank you it's okay right any other uh questions from the
board or discussion or a motion i'll make a motion i'll make a motion that the board of county commissioners deny the special exception and associated development order for an 8 bed uh assisted living facility in the A1 zoning district on 1 acre uh located
on the east side of Walden's Pond Cove okay just to be clear that was for deny uh right do I have a second i'll second it all right um all those in favor can we have a little bit of discussion first absolutely we can have a discussion
first yeah i I just you know I I recognize that that she has six by right and I I really commend the service that they provide it's it's really uh um a good situation but I'm not I'm not happy
with adding the hardship and even though it only sounds like two more people it's more delivery more visitors more everything just she has her six by right and I don't think we should impose any more hardship on the neighborhood and let her expand the
business so that's why I seconded that motion any other discussion or should we go ahead and vote all those in favor i all those opposed hearing none the denial passes
tell her that she goes she'd go before the county committee yeah that's also true um so this isn't the final step this is just our recommendation to the board of county commissioners and it sounded like that meeting will be May 13th is that correct may 13th 13th yeah May 13th so in the afternoon
thank you thank you those of you in the audience remember May 13th the hearing occurs again so if you have an interest in talking you need to be there so this was this is a recommendation to the board of county commissioners the
meeting is May 13th and that's when they'll make their decision on this item so all right I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing um closing business uh Jose do you have anything for the board tonight uh yes a few items
uh just a few staffing updates uh first I want to you guys all know Joy Giles she's now our division manager for planning and development so congratulations to her she's going to be sitting at the at the director's uh chair and today I'm sitting in where
Vladimir Sonowski typically sits uh Vladimir has taken another job he has actually gone to to work with the city of Apka so we wish him luck there uh he will be missed he was a great asset so um just thank him for for all his service here and and I know he he was a
great asset to you as well absolutely missed right um we have a new deputy um uh development services director who will be starting on April 14th her name is Dagmarie Sagera she used to work at the county a few years ago she's worked with the city of Ovido with the city of
Lake Mary city of Winter Springs as well as uh as Ocola County before and she's currently the deputy community services director at the city of St cloud and she's a a seminal county resident she lives in Lake Mary so she'll be a great addition to the team and help with the planning team uh and then we we've been
having a series of work sessions on the land development code with the border county commissioners on different items of things that we'll be updating uh in the next few months we'll be bringing that to you to to provide you a briefing on that so I just wanted to give you a heads up on that that's all I have joy
Joy congratulations but you'll be missed as a presenter i you always were very good as a presenter thank you i appreciate agreed agreed thank you there we go all right does the board have anything to discuss okay all right i'm going to join
the meeting no further business
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