Community Development Board Agenda - August 26, 2008
Revised 08/21/2008
CONSENT AGENDA
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BOARD
Date:
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Time:
1:00 p.m.
rd
Place:
112 South Osceola Street, 3 Floor,
Clearwater, Florida, 33756
(City Hall Council Chambers)
Welcome the City of Clearwater Community Development Board (CDB) meeting. The City
strongly supports and fully complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Please
advise us at least 72 hours prior to the meeting if you require special accommodations. Assisted
listening devices are available. An oath will be administered swearing in all participants in
public hearing cases. If you wish to speak please wait to be recognized, then state and spell
your name and provide your address. Persons speaking before the CDB shall be limited to
three minutes unless an individual is representing a group in which case the Chairperson may
authorize a reasonable amount of time up to 10 minutes.
Kindly refrain from conducting private conversations, using beepers, cellular telephones, etc.
as they are distracting during the meeting.
Florida Statue 286.0105 states: Any person appealing a decision of this Board must have a
record of the proceedings to support such appeal. Community Development Code Section 4-
206 requires that any person seeking to: personally testify, present evidence, argument and
witness, cross-examine witnesses, appeal the decision and speak on reconsideration requests
should request party status during the case discussion. Party status entitles parties to: personally
testify, present evidence, argument and witnesses cross-examine witnesses, appeal the decision
and speak on reconsideration requests.
If you have questions or concerns about a case, please contact the staff presenter from the
Planning Department listed at the end of each agenda item at 727-562-4567.
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A. CALL TO ORDER, INVOCATION, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
B. ROLL CALL:
Chair Fritsch, Vice Chair Coates, Members Adelson, Behar, Dame, Tallman,
DiPolito, Alternate Member Carlough, City Staff
C. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING:
July 15, 2008
D. REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE (to September 16, 2008) (Item 1):
1. Case:
FLD2008-02002 – 1590 Gulf Boulevard Level Two Application
Owner/Applicant:
Belleview Biltmore Owner, LLC.
Representative:
Richard Heisenbottle, R. J. Heisenbottle Architects, P.A(2199 Ponce de Leon
Boulevard, Suite 400. Coral Gables, FL 33134; phone: 305-446-7799; fax: 305-446-9275; email:
Richard@rjha.net).
Location:
1.38 total acres (0.96 acres zoned Commercial District; 0.42 acres zoned Open
Space/Recreation and Preservation Districts) located on the west side of Gulf Boulevard, approximately
1,100 feet north of the City limits line between Clearwater and Belleair.
Atlas Page:
311A.
Zoning:
Commercial (C) District.
Request:
Flexible Development approval to permit a 38-unit overnight accommodation use with a 125-
seat accessory restaurant in the Commercial (C) District with a reduction to the required lot width from
200 to 88.41 feet, a reduction to the front (east) setback from 25 to five feet (to pavement), a reduction
to the side (north) setback from 10 to zero feet (to building), a reduction to the rear (west) setback from
the Coastal Construction Control Line (CCCL) from 20 to zero feet, to allow proposed temporary
cabanas up to 25 feet west of the CCCL and an increase to building height from 25 to 67 feet, as a
Comprehensive Infill Redevelopment Project, under the provisions of Section 2-704.C; and a reduction
to the front (east) perimeter buffer from 15 to five feet (to pavement), a reduction to the side (north)
perimeter buffer from 10 to zero feet (to building and pavement) and a reduction to the width of interior
landscape islands from eight to 4.6 feet inside curbing, as a Comprehensive Landscape Program, under
the provisions of Section 3-1202.G.
Proposed Use:
38-unit overnight accommodation use with a 125-seat accessory restaurant.
Neighborhood Associations:
Sand Key Civic Association; Clearwater Beach Association; and
Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition.
Presenter:
Wayne M. Wells, AICP, Planner III.
E. CONSENT AGENDA: The following cases are not contested by the applicant, staff,
neighboring property owners, etc. and will be approved by a single vote at the beginning of the
meeting (Items 1-4):
1. Case:
FLD2006-04026 – 2166 Palmetto Street
Owner:
Progress Energy.
Representative:
Boris Hornjak (15500 Lightwave Drive, Suite 100, Clearwater, FL; phone: 727-524-
6000; fax: 727-524-6998).
Location:
14.106 acres at the southwest corner of Palmetto Street and Belcher Road.
Atlas Page:
271B.
Zoning District:
Industrial, Research and Technology (IRT) District.
Request:
Extend the time frame of the Development Order.
Proposed Use:
Office/Storage/Vehicle Service.
Presenter:
Robert G. Tefft, Development Review Manager.
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2. Case:
FLD2008-06016 – 1996 Gulf to Bay Boulevard Level Two Application
Owner/Applicant:
ZY LLC.
Representative:
Joseph Perlman(1101 Belcher Road, Suite B. Largo, FL 33771; phone: 727-536-
2711; fax: 727-536-2714).
Location:
0.497 acres located at the northwest corner of Gulf to Bay Boulevard and S. Hercules
Avenue.
Atlas Page:
289A.
Zoning:
Commercial (C) District.
Request:
Flexible Development approval to permit the re-establishment of an automobile service
station in the Commercial (C) District with a reduction to the front (south) setback from 25 to five feet
(to existing pavement), a reduction to the front (east) setback from 25 to five feet (to existing
pavement), reductions to the side (north) setback from 10 to 7.33 feet (to existing building), to four feet
(to existing pavement) and to one-foot (to existing covered concrete slab), reductions to the side (west)
setback from 10 to seven feet (to existing pavement) and to 6.5 feet (to existing dumpster enclosure), as
a Comprehensive Infill Redevelopment Project, under the provisions of Section 2-704.C, and reductions
to the perimeter buffers along Gulf to Bay Boulevard and S. Hercules Avenue from 15 to five feet (to
existing pavement) and a reduction to the landscape buffer along the north property line from five to
four feet (to existing pavement) and to one-foot (to existing covered concrete slab), as a Comprehensive
Landscape Program, under the provisions of Section 3-1202.G.
Proposed Use:
Automobile service station.
Neighborhood Associations:
Skycrest; East Gateway; and Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition.
Presenter:
Wayne M. Wells, AICP, Planner III.
3. Case:
TA2008-07003 - Amendments to the Community Development Code Level Three Application
Applicant:
City of Clearwater, Planning Department.
Request
: Amendments to the Community Development Code to adopt criteria by which sandwich
board signs may be permitted in certain areas, provide a fee for such signage, and to add a definition
for traditional urban corridor.
Neighborhood Association:
Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition.
Presenter:
Robert G. Tefft, Development Review Manager.
4. Case
: CPA2007-06003 – Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan Level Three Application
Applicant:
City of Clearwater, Planning Department.
Request
: Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan of the City as adopted on May 18, 2000, and
subsequently amended, by amending the Table of Contents and all elements of the comprehensive
plan, making substantial changes to the elements based on the 2006 Evaluation and Appraisal Report
(EAR) of the Comprehensive Plan, and making minor editorial changes, in accordance with Florida
Statutes.
Type of Amendment:
Large Scale
Neighborhood Association:
Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition.
Presenter
: Sandra E. Herman, Planner III
ADJOURNMENT
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