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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_Workshop_04/09/1992 VILLAGE OF TEQUESTA Post Office Box 3273 • 357 Tequesta Drive Tequesta, Florida 33469-0273 (407) 575-6200 FAX: (407) 575-6203 V I L L A G E O F T E Q U E S T A W O R K S H O P V I L L A G E C O U N C I L M E E T I N G M I N U T E S A P R I L 9, 1 9 9 2 I. The Tequesta Village Council held a workshop meeting at the Village Hall, 357 Tequesta Drive, Tequesta, Florida, on Thursday, April 9, 1992. The meeting was called to order at 6:00 P.M. by Mayor Earl L. Collings. A roll call was taken by the Recording Secretary, Fran Bitters. Councilmembers present were: Mayor Earl L. Collings, Vice-Mayor Edward C. Howell, William E. Burckart, Ron T. Mackail and Joseph N. Capretta. Village Manager Thomas G. Bradford, Village Clerk Joann Manganiello, and Village Attorney John C. Randolph were also in attendance. Staff members present were Bill Kascavelis, Finance Director, Scott D. Ladd, Department of Community Affairs and Lt. Steve Allison of the Tequesta Police Department. r~ U II. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Councilmember Mackail moved to approve the Agenda as submitted. Vice Mayor Howell seconded the motion. The vote on the motion was: Earl L. Collings - for Edward C. Howell - .for Joseph N. Capretta - for Ron T. Mackail - for William E. Burckart - for the motion was passed and adopted and the Agenda was approved as submitted. Recycled Paper • Village Council Workshop Meeting Minutes April 9, 1992 Page 2 III. REVIEW OF PROGRESS TO DATE WITHIN TOWN CENTER MASTER PLAN AREA. A) Lighthouse Plaza Foreclosure: This property has again been taken over by the mortgage holder, Chrysler Financial Credit Corporation of Greenwich, Connecticut. The property consists of 14.01 acres, currently zoned commercial, assessed at $6M, for sale at $2.25M. The property owners are desirous of a zoning change which provides for residential land use. B) Tequesta Plaza; Publix Lease Expiration 10/92: Mr. Falhaber, President of the corporation which owns the property, wishes to totally renovate the center to provide for a new facade, new expanded space for a major tenant, and is interested in the Town Center Master Plan, recognizing that the residential use will provide new customers for his plaza. He continues to explore for a • potential anchor for Tequesta Plaza. C) st. Jude~s Church Construction Project: This is an approximate $5M facility presently ongoing, done in conjunction with the Master Plan, in that it is ultimately envisioned that the St. Jude's driveway off Village Boulevard will ultimately be dedicated to the Village, as well as a buffer area to the immediate west, to be used as a portion of Main Street which will run from Village Boulevard to Tequesta Drive. Once deeded over, the driveway will be upgraded to street standards. D) NPBCWCD (District) Annexation: The entire Master Plan area was annexed by the District, which allows for public financing. The District can provide for a full range of infrastructure facilities on both public and private property which can be maintained by individuals, by the District, or some other governmental entity. The cost of those improvements can be spread over 30 years. Pete Pimentel, Executive Director of the District, is desirous of calling together all property owners in the Master Plan area to begin a meeting to reach a consensus as to the minimum infrastructure that can be agreed upon at this point in time so the District can move forward in the construction and financing of that infrastructure. • • Village Council Workshop Meeting Minutes April 9, 1992 Page 3 ------------------------------- E) Other Items: Old Dixie Highway construction has been completed. This should satisfy any traffic problems for many years to come. The County secured 80 feet of right- of-way for the future, in the event that road ever needs to be widened from three lanes to five lanes. Mayor Collings inquired as to whether any expansion is proposed by the Post Office. Village Manager Bradford explained he has written to the Post Office on a couple of occasions to suggest that they look into doing that; but, to date no response has been received. Mayor Collings suggested a follow-up. IV. INCREMENTAL GROWTH DISTRICT (IGD) ORDINANCE 1) Overview: The IGD Ordinance will serve to implement the • details of the Town Center Master Plan. A four-minute video tape of a recent news segment of a plan was shown to portray the concept of a downtown development plan. A) General: Victor Dover explained that the challenge of the Ordinance is to obtain development flexibility and assure the results. In order for a community to deliberately seek its ideal, there must be a plan. If a plan is adopted that is specific enough to guarantee the quality of the results, this sometimes places undue strains on development flexibility. To ensure flexibility, an IGD has been created to allow for development flexibility while ensuring the results. B) Process for Approval: The idea of a 2-track system is to build an incentive into the approval process for applicants who do what the Master Plan calls for (gradual build-out according to the Regulating Plan). This will save the applicant money and time. It will be easier than a typical approval, by far. • Village Council Workshop • Meeting Minutes April 9, 1992 Page 4 C) The Standards of the Ordinance: There should be options to do other things, other than what the Master Plan shows and it would be necessary to ensure that those 'other' things would be at least as good as, if not better than, those of the Regulating Plan. In order to do that, a set of Performance Standards was created - design goals. There are definite conventions which are derived from the history of city buildings. These physical conventions have been built into the standards under the IGD Ordinance. According to what street you would be on, there are certain expectations. Regarding possible uses, there is a tremendous range, making it far more flexible than conventional zoning. D) The Regulating Plan: When a plan is adopted which is specific enough to guarantee the quality of results, there may come with that an unduly constrained development flexibility. There can be a plan which will give both development flexibility and assure the results • - a plan based on the September 1989 Master Plan with updates. A plan with the force of law - the Regulating Plan would be already pre-scrutinized by Council and the community. 2) Review of the Proposed Approval Process - The ~~Two-Track System's A) Procedure 1: Adherence to the Regulating Plan - Track 1: should be one-step easy permitting - an incentive given to Developers - following the Regulating Plan and Standards. Council will have pre-approved anything that is going to follow along the details of the Regulating Plan. If an applicant wishes to build any size development, following the Regulating Plan and Standards, even the whole 90 acres, it should be one- step easy permitting, an opportunity of giving incentives to Developers. It is conspicuously shorter than procedure 2. Track 1 procedure is scrutinized and pre- approved by Council beforehand. Any applicant choosing this option will basically be tapping into free design that the Village sponsored for them, saving time, money and risk. • • • Village Council Workshop Meeting Minutes April 9, 1992 Page 5 B) Procedure 2: Prc Track 2: The altern. scrutinized - must be an applicant to propose Plan shows, he needs tc be in harmony with the ~ time and the way surr alternative method sent that alternatives are p expensive and take a 1. there's no guaranty the may be disapproval of design idea would have will be necessary to c alternative plan will posed Alternative Ward Plans - itive design idea - not pre- pproved by Council. In order for something other than the Master demonstrate that his design will ether development existing at that Funding wards are set up. This s a clear message to the applicant ~ssible. However, it will be more .ttle more time than Track 1, and t it is risk-free. An end result the alternative. An alternative to be scrutinized by Council. It .emonstrate that what is in that be in harmony with the other aevelopment already existing by that time, or proposed within that ward, and with the way the surrounding wards are set up. Developers can lay that out a ward at a time - a "fit" needs to be demonstrated. Track 2 would involve a three-step process as opposed to Track 1' s one- step process: 1) presenting to staff the schematic design to obtain either a Notice to Proceed or a list of recommendations to be followed in order to obtain approval; 2) a public hearing with Council (the concept development stage) will take place to whom will be presented drawings with much more finite design ideas. At the conclusion of the Hearing, applicant will either receive a Notice to Proceed or receive from Council a list of recommendations for approval. V. VILLAGE COUNCIL COMMENTS/QUESTIONS Village Manager Bradford explained that this concept is a result of comments by Village Council in March 1991. The previous proposal was to provide incentives for Developers to develop in accordance with the Master Plan, keeping the underlying zoning as is, while sticking a "carrot" in front of them to obtain results desired. Council felt those incentives were not strong enough and that a better way would need to be discovered to meet Village standards while allowing for flexibility in terms of alternative designs. The two- track system addresses those concerns. Village Council Workshop Meeting Minutes April 9, 1992 Page 6 ------------------------------- Councilmember Capretta commented that it was hoped that Track 1 would be chosen by Developers. Councilmember Burckart stated he knew of no Developers who were interested in the Master Plan area and felt it was not economically viable. He did not see how a speeded up approval process could be considered an incentive. He also did not see any flexibility in the Plan. Councilmember Mackail felt the Master Plan has some shortfalls. Procedure 2 gives Council more flexibility as a body to create input preferred by the Village. He felt the property in foreclosure needed to be re-visited for rezoning as soon as possible. Mr. Mackail felt the Plan does have flexibility and that the two-track approach was a step in the right direction. Vice Mayor Howell felt that though guidelines are good, it might be difficult to force a lifestyle in the Master Plan area. He felt it was good to push the issue along, but not to force it. Mayor Collings felt the planning process ought to have two phases: 1) to provide for ultimately an ideal, but 2) not so limiting, or restrictive or discouraging that it would prevent a group from wanting to go forward. Village Manager Bradford commented there are two different perspectives on planning and/or development: 1) the community will tell the Developers what it is that they will do; and 2) the Village will be driven by the Developers as to what they want to do. Hypothetically, if a syndicate bought the property and presented their proposal, they have another set of options: 1) they could seek a waiver from Zoning In Progress and present their proposal; or 2) that with Zoning In Progress, the Village is going to open up the Regulating Plan portion of that Ordinance and the Standards of that ordinance. • Village Council Workshop Meeting Minutes April 9, 1992 Page 7 VI. PUBLIC COMMENTS/QUESTIONS Gary Van Brock, a local Developer, felt that speeding up the approval process was fine, but the design standards were still too strict. He felt talking about a two-track system before deciding on standards was putting the ' cart before the horse' . Mayor Collings reminded Mr. Van Brock that the topic for discussion at this meeting is the two-track process (the two different approaches for approval), not the standards. Mr. Bradford invited Mr. Van Brock to look over the language in the approval process and submit suggested language to amend those portions of the process with which he does not agree. Mr. Bradford stated further that standards will be discussed at the next meeting. Gary Van Brock held up a draft of a Site Plan for a potential residential site near Village Boulevard. Scott Ladd commented that that Site Plan was just the kind of test the Master Plan • needed to weigh its advantages and disadvantages. VII. DIRECTION FROM VILLAGE COUNCIL ON HOW TO PROCEED Mayor Collings felt that the direction that is needed to be given is to work on the draft of Ordinances to examine the standards. It was agreed that staff would get together with Gary Van Brock and his draft proposal to see how the proposal and the Master Plan compared, and schedule another Workshop to discuss design standards. . Village Council Workshop Meeting Minutes April 9, 1992 Page 8 ------------------------------- VIII. ADJOORNMENT Councilmember Mackail moved that the meeting be adjourned. Vice Mayor Howell seconded the motion. The vote on the motion was: Earl L. Collings - for Joseph N. Capretta - for Ron T. Mackail - for Edward C. Howell - for William E. Burckart - for the motion was passed and adopted and the meeting was adjourned at 7:25 P.M. n ATTEST: J nn Manganie o Village Clerk DATE APPROVED: a2i 9 Respectfully submitted, ~,~ ~~~ Fran Bitters Recording Secretary