04/18/1961 - Joint Meeting
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JOI~n' !~1!~3TING ZON1NG AND PLJUJ1\INfJ 130AltD
AND Crry C01,MIUSION
Jl-Unutes of the l,teeting, ~ruoriday, April 18, 1961 D
'fhe meeting vms called to order at 3: 00 P. 111. by the Ohairman,
141". l.(rus6. Present were lJlembeX'8 ltende) 1..1ylandor, Novotny, Harries
and GalJ.o\'/ay', 1-1r.. Hottig of the Engineering Departmont and lv[r. Holle.
The 'minutes of the April 11$ 1961, meeting were approved as read.
~ir. lCrt\stL~eort~cL ~l:1a t !!~ {-,he Board o,f._J1~.j.illl trnent__~1~LAl?B...~ '
Hearing on App~l l.3J~yh~ 'l~ .ft. set.back .fot. Lot 9~ock G. , ~vondaleM
i2!lbdiviaion ~M ~~~e.rov~ on the North Greem'lood Ave. side :tn a split
vote decisionu The fact that the rogulation set-aacks would allo\'s
only a 20 ft. width of buildi.ng was considered a hardship by the BAAm
However, the Chairman pointed out that the Zoning and Planning Board'a
letter recora.uending denial of the application would be a part of" the
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Chairman Kruso received the congratulations of the Board for the
well deserved re cognition given t~o him e. t the City, Commission ,l11eeting
of April 17 J at \'lhich time he was pre sented the City of Clearwater
~edal for past service to the city as Chairman of the Planning and
Planning and Zonj.ng Board.s, President of the J.1emorial Civic Center
A3~ociatiori, and work with the City Beautification Co~nitteeo
Ci~"y~Beaut.if~cati_9l'! Cominif;Ui~~~prQ""'tg.~ - lJIr. Kruse report.ed
that the Chamber of Commerce Co.ffee tha't morning at the Jack 'far
Hurrision Hotel was a very good meeting \'lith an est:Lme.ted 30 t.o 35
persons present. i4r~ Thompson1 St~ H,oad Department landscape engineer,
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and J,'iJ:o. Holle vmre among t.h008 pre sent.
He e:turessed satisfaction that
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offers t,Q sponsor three of bhe GuJ.f-to~.BliY lsl;;.ll1ds '.vere reCCiYAd. He
f'lu"tl1er reported trha.t at this meeting he emphasized to those in at-
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tendance the important l't~lat:Lonshlp of bGi3.utificat:Lon to planning"
The Board was advised 't.ha'G 110 i\lrthor ini'ol'matlon ha.d been re-
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ceived concerning the zoning leg~.slativl: bil15c
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tIn". Wolle advised that all the mobile homr3 park quentionn,-aire8
'l'larG delivered to park owner-.operators the ''laek before and that al-
ready one return' had come in ,'1hich was very complete..
lrhere vias some discussion i.n regard 1;0 zoning availab10 to
special and highly restricted indus'tri.al areas Buch as the i,linneapo-
lis-Honeywell area. ' l.tr. \"10110 generally covered performance st. an-
dards' as a means of controlling noise t dUB t, and other undesirable
features of' some plant operai~ions. i~ention \'ias made of' the attempt
of the County to rezone areas for the benefit of industrial plants8
There was some discussion of the Hercules industrial area and the
. City Industrial Park zoning.
Prior to convening of t:.he joint meeting the City Attorney in-
formally discussed with ~embGr3 status of the proposed zoning legisla-
ti.va bills. 'rhe Board learned ib rlaS his understanding that bills
to be introduced would be substantially as fun1ished by hie office'
(copies of , these previously made available't~ the Zoning and Planning
Board). Attorney Brown advised that he had been unsuccessful in an
attempt to contact Senat.or 'Young by telephone that day, but that
he planlled to be in 'fallahassee durin!.; t.he vleelc and ,-;auld check on
status of the bills.
At 4':00 p~ Vi., CitLQ.omrais~i-9~t3..rz glee ..lit!! ,t~~ard~
Pre sent \/ere: May 01" .Robert L 0 \'laathex'ly
Commissioner5: Amos Smith
Herbert Ii'ields
Kenneth Haltors
City At torney Herbert 101. .BrOl'ID
Acting City l>1anag~'[' GGrald \.eimer
" Chr:l.irman Kruse I3xprl~ seed thH pl~aouJ."'c of the i~oard' l~lembers in
ha v ing t.he COllt.nis sioner s r;:.e et, VD. th t':1 om ~
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:L~~ ~~. lrhe ChHirrl1an present.ad the fol1{lt.dng ido~w for' con3i~crat.ion:
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t1'he .Boa:.rd, as all advisory one, could contrj.bute morc if in
closer touch .....J1th the City Cnil1mission. rl'hus: t.he Oonunission may ha're
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kno\'lledge of overall plunnin~ and be able l'.o eXBtnine deta.iled plans
in the light of an oyerall scheme..
Comprehensive development can only be 0ffectuated chrough
proper liaison.
1!.. Q.Q2!'dination bet'.!'leel). ucon~!l!.~~m ta 1 d,~ar.tfp1ent~_g.nd.. ~o~d
"rhe Board has bean able to keep in close tOllch \ri.th its
Planning Consultal1ts, Harland Bartholoms1" and Associates, due to hav-
ing a coordinated program vmereby field studies for their reports
are made by the planriing offic8e
Certain plans of other consultants have not always been coordi-
nated and made kno\m to the Board and to depart.nents of the City
80 as to allow better integration of plans~
'c.. Coo2~ation ~n4 coor~ina~i~ o~ PF~j~,~~ ~dth,Coun~~ and
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'j,'hereis a need for ragionalplanning' at a higher than Board
level. 1-lr. Gilbert \'T. Clifford, Pinellas County 3ngineer) met \lith
the Board by invitation on 1.1arch 10 :for a discuss ion of City and
County road development, and the Board gGn erally tr:i.ed to 'Hork in a
spirit. of cooperation l'ri. th County Departments. It \liaS noti 'too soon
to try to consider again organ1.~~lng, a regioual planning cOlllinittee L
14ayor POi'lell of Largo has eXl,:Iressed sympathy \r1.1,-,h the :ldea. (LJIFlyor
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Heatherly advise,d that hG lw.d spoken tv 1-1.ayor Davis of Dun8din and
they arB ,'Tilling to co()perat~).
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Glear\>rater took. t,h~:;: :tn:tti&tivf.l (dlu"j,ng forme:- !:.jcwor L1r01vl1 7 s
t~erm of office) il'! an effort. to effect a cO!l1bin'3d ,Soard vli.tll t.h(~
County (Hegional Planning Board). rrh:i.s did not materj.alize c
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JlGgNDA 11'EJl12: tLh.l__1L....:lmL.P..::..l.- '1Ihi.:~ \rlC\S d131'ol'red I~o D uch
time that a full sesuion may be devoted to the rl~ portn if roquested.
Ji.flENp~_,rrEM :L=__ Gener~l--:19.h.em,e "':'. pl.1y.~~..pg~~r!-Cel1,t2-:al Bu~.:E~~
pistr~t ,Ar,c!a inclE91ng. \'latoTft'Oll!>_.~.ivic c~.r -
Chairman Kruse stat-cd the principal thing t~he Board wished to
discuss with the Commission at t.his meeting \'la8 the major street 8YS-,'
tern. He pointed out that by the end of the yoar the Ha.rlund Bartholo-
mew and Associates condensed compl"'ehensive report \iould be comple'ted
t#hat. WOuld embrace all the single repo~s~ Mr.. Harries presented for
the Board the Oentral Business District major street, proposals as
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illustrated on 1/100 scale photomap, withoverlaYt propured by the City
Planner and embodying ideas of the planning con5u.ltantsw Zoning and
Plann:i.ng Board, and Planner. He explained that t.he plan was designed
as a possible, future solution to the problem of do~mtO\m tr.affic con-
gestion, \'zhich "lith the grovrt.h of the city \>,rill become even mora
acute e Principal featl..tt'8s vf ~he plan pointed out. \'JaY'03 an outer loop 9
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an inner loop, and a program of adding periph~:~r&.l public off-street
parking areas. F'eatures of the plan included shuttle bus operati on t
a ,downto\1n shoppingmallt as well as bay front and city park pro-
posals" , There "Jas also discussion of railroad rishtJ.-of-\'lay usage
and. relocation of rail pas.oenger t:.erminal facilities. Each Co:nmia-
aioner and BOal~d liJember ylaS given a map-drawing of' the do\mto\'ffi area
portraying the 1.deas present.ad"
There 1tlaS a discussion [,Hid a r;.H..!eptive (J:'chat1g~ of ideas regard-
ing dmmto\'ID stree t pro je ct..:3 no", underway or schedule d for C onstruc-
tion in the near fut..ure, and those that should receive priority in
futlU'e planning u
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.[\'9ENDA PfElV&l. ~J.n1!!}...iM .,1;,gX' HOl"thoa?t .el&. S,outJheal!,.t Arefl!! ~
Mr_ lCruse adv:laed that tile !,lajor Streots proposals and require-
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ments of a plan fot' the l1o:t.theuat t\rea involving certain street ex-
tensions and al i,gnments of subdivio'j.on colleci;or strel=Jta Tk'lcl been
discussed \'/itih L'I!r ,,' Clifford I the .col1nf~y Engineer, and that he had in-
dicated approval of tho Board's proposal for an 80 ft.. eaot-\lJest C 01-
lector stree t bet\'leell Drew Street extfJnsiol1 and Gulf-to-Bay Blvd..,
east of US 19.. The Chairman pointed out that 118\'1 developments are
going in the sQutheastqlarter, and lIDless some action was taken soon
to guide, development of the area, the opportunity might be lost~
'There wa~ some discussion of 'the possibj.lity of' a cOlUlecti.on of a
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Olearwater east-west artery toa bayshore boulevard along Old 'rampa
Bay to Courtney~Campbell Causewayo
AGEN,DA. J,TEM #5: Sit~ PlanninR and Beau,~fication _Proje~t.~,-
The Chan'man noted that the attitude of the Board is that the
beautification projects are of distinct interest to it, as planning
and beautification go hand in hand, and expr-3ssed "the \'Jillingness' of
the Board to cooperate in any l~Y it can. He then gave Commissioners
details of the morning Coffee meeting and of progress of Beaut:tfica-
tion Committeo plans for the triangle approach to the \'Jest Bridge of
the !-1emorial Causal'lay 0
hGENDA ITEM #21--1.'!.9f!}.'es,s .!L0J2~~ -. r.1ention was made 1,ihat in the
near future the "Board '~ould like to discuns vl;ith t;he Commiss ion the
Attractions Report which had been submitted some tim0 agoD
thanked
Chairman Kruse again/tJ1ayor \leatherly and t.h~ Oommissione,rs for
t.heil' presence and expressed the app!'0cj.ation of' the Board for the
\;.) opportunity of discussing these plann:i.ng nmtt.e):'s ~
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