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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_Commuinity Appearance_12/17/2003 r ,� �� �' VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA ' q � Post Office Box 3273 • 250 Tequesta Drive, Suite 300 �� - �` � Tequesta,Flerida 33469-0273 • (561)575-6200 �� ;.. _ �o Falc: (561) 575-6203 � N y VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA COMMUNITY APPEARANCE BOARD FINAL MEETING MINUTES December 17, 2003 I. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL The Tequesta Community Appearance Board held their final meeting in the Tequesta Recreation Department at 399 Seabrook Road, Tequesta, Florida, on Wednesday, December 17, 2003. Tl�e meeting was called to order at 8:30 A.M. by Chair Vic Strahan. The roll was called. Boardmembers present were: Chair Vic Strahan, Boardmember Richard Sterling, Boardmember Robert Stein, and Boardmember Leslie Cook. Alternate Robert Young was seated in place of Vice Chair Steve Parker, who was absent. Also in attendance were Jeff Newell, Director of Community Development, and Carol Lux, Clerk of the Board. IL APPROVAL OF AGENDA Boardmember Cook made a motion to approve the agenda with Any Other Matters to be moved to the first item. Boardmember Sterling seconded the motion, which carried by unanimous �-0 vote. IIL ANY OTHER MATTERS Mr. Newell indicated this would be the final meeting of this board and he hoped to have the Planning and Zoning Advisory Board in operation by February. This would be a 5-member board. Boardmember Cook asked if a 7-member board had been considered so that there would be enough members attending meetings. Chair Strahan stressed the importance of all members attending every meeting whether seated or not. Mr. Newell explained that if any member had three unexcused absences in a row, they would be automatically dismissed from the Planning and Zoning Advisary Board. Mr. Newell advised that every resident would receive an application for the Planning and Recycled Paper COMMUNITY APPE;ARANCE BOARD MEETING MINUTES December 1�, 2003 Page 2 Zoning Advisory Board and that the Planning and Zorung Advisory Board would be busy reviewing code revisions and making recommendations on those revisions to the Village Council. Mr. Newell thanked the members of the Community Appearance Board for their service to the Village. IV. COMMUNICATIONS FROM CITIZENS Wade Griest, Dover Road, asked if any members of this Board would become members of the Planning and Zoning Advisory Board. It was explained that the Village Council would appoint the board from applicants, and every resident would receive an application. Mr. Griest wished those present a merry Christmas. V. APPROVAL OF PREVIOUS MEETING MINUTES MOTION Boardmember Cook made a motion to approve the minutes of the November 12, 2003 meeting as presented. Boardmember Sterling seconded the motion, which carried by unanimous 5-0 vote. VI. NEW BUSINESS A. An application from Baron Sign Manufacturing, representing Water Pointe Realty for a property located at 393 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta, Florida to review two (2) wall signs and one monument sign. a. Swearing-In of Witnesses, if Required Clerk of the Board Caxol Lux swore in all witnesses. b. Disclosure of Ex-Parte Communications: Each Boardmember reported no ex-parte communication. c. Testimony of Witnesses and Cross Examination, if any Brian Baxter, representing Baxon Signs, described the proposed signs. Boardmember Cook asked if any trees would be removed. Mr. Baxter COMMUNITYAPPF.ARANCE BOARD MEETING MINUTES December 1�, 2oog Page 3 -------------------------- referred to the site plan, which indicated one tree would be moved. Boardmember Sterling found the wall sign troubling because it was so large. Discussion ensued regarding sign sizes and trees. MOTION Boardmember Stein made a motion to approve the application from Baron Sign Manufacturing representing Water Pointe Realty for a property located at 393 Tequesta Drive with the sign on Seabrook Road to be 5"9" across. Boardmember Cook seconded the motion, which carried by unanimous 5-0 vote. Chair Strahan confirmed that the large sign on Seabrook Road would be reduced to the same size as the monument sign, 5'-9" x 2'-8". Note: At the end of the meeting the applicant returned and advised he had driven by the property and the large sign faced Tequesta Drive, not Seabrook Road, so the signs were reversed on the plans. B. An application from the Village of Tequesta, Parks and Recreation Department, to paint the egterior of the Recreation Building located at 399 Seabrook Road to match the Public Safety Building. a. Swearing-In of Witnesses, if Required Clerk of the Board Carol Lux swore in all witnesses. b. Disclosure of Ex-Parte Communications: Each Boardmember reported no ex-parte coinmunication. c. Testimony of Witnesses and Cross Examination, if any Parks and Recreation Director Greg Corbitt indicated he wanted to change the building color to give it identity with the other municipal building, the Public Safety Building, and presented samples to the Board. Shutters were proposed to be placed on the walls. MOTION Boardmember Cook made a motion to approve the application from the Village of Tequesta Parks and Recreation Department to paint the COMMUNITYAPPFARANCE BOARD MEETING MINUTES December 1�, 2003 Page 4 -------------------------- exterior of the building located at 399 Seabrook Road to match the Public Safety Building and to add the shutters as proposed. Boardmember Stein seconded the motion. Motion carried by unanimous 5-0 vote. VII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS An application by Sunoc� Inc., for a property located at 104 N. U.S. Highway One, Tequesta, Florida, to review a new canopy for the fuel pump areas and signage changing from Speedway to Sunoco. Clerk of the Board Lux explained that she had provided a summary of the Board's recommendations to the applicant. Consensus of the Board was to confirm the recommendations made at the last meeting, which Clerk of the Board Carol Lux had already summarized and provided to the applicant. Ms. Lux indicated she would provide the summary to each member of the Board. VIII. ANY OTHER MATTERS Boardmember Cook indicated she had counted the trees on the property for the new Bank of America and Eckerd's buildings which the applicant had indicated would all be relocated, and there were 17 palms which were all alive and she wanted to be sure all of those remained and that was noted in the record. Boardmembers Stein and Sterling, and Chair Strahan, all reported some of those palms had not survived and that the applicant must conform to the original approved application before they would be granted a certificate of occupancy. IX. ADJOURNMENT Upon motion by Boardmember Cook, seconded by Boardmember Sterling, and unanimously carried 5-0, the final meeting of the Community Appearance Board was adjourned at 9:15 a.m. Respectfully submitted, ' _� � L � `-'` ,� �_.-", _ - i Betty L"aur Recording Secretary