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AGENDA
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BOARD
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Place: 112 South Osceola Street, 3rd Floor,
Clearwater, Florida, 33756
(City Hall Council Chambers)
Revised 06/15/2009
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 part,, s? 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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Community Development Board Agenda -June 16, 2009 -Page 1 of 3
A. CALL TO ORDER, INVOCATION, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
B. ROLL CALL: Chair Fritsch, Vice Chair Coates, Members Adelson, Barker, Behar, Dame, DiPolito,
Alternate Member Carlough, City Staff
C. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING: May 19, 2009.
D. LEVEL TWO APPLICATION (Item 1):
1. Case: FLD2008-12034 - 20 Kendall Street (Related to DVA2008-00003) Level Two Application
Owner/Applicant: Panorama on Clearwater Beach, LLC and Evangeline P. Samarkos, as Trustee of
the Evangeline P. Samarkos Revocable Trust UAD 3/27/06, Michael A. Samarkos, Victoria Harkey 106
Midway Island, Clearwater Beach, FL 33767-2313.
Agent: Ed Hooper, Consus Group, LLC (P.O. Box 4268, Clearwater, FL 33758; phone: 727-458-4751;
fax: 727-461-4942).
Location: 0.60 acres is located between the south side of Avalon Street and the north side of Kendall
Street approximately 150 feet west of Mandalay Avenue.
Atlas Page: 258A.
Zoning: Tourist (T) District.
Request: (1) Flexible Development approval to permit an 88-room overnight accommodation use in
the Tourist (T) District with a reduction to lot width along Kendall Street from 150 feet to 100 feet
(south side), a reduction to the front (south) setback from 15 feet to 10.8 feet (to proposed building)
and zero feet (to proposed sidewalk), a reduction to the front (north) setback from 15 feet to 10 feet
(to proposed building) and zero feet (to proposed pavement), a reduction to the side (west) setback
from 10 feet to five feet (to proposed building) and zero feet (to proposed pavement), a reduction to
the side (east) setback from 10 feet to five feet (to proposed building), a reduction to the rear (south)
setback from 20 feet to five feet (to proposed building), and an increase to the building height from 35
feet to 72 feet (to top of roof deck) and 86.5 feet (to elevator equipment) under the provisions of
Community Development Code (CDC) Section 2-803.I, and approval of a two-year development
order; and (2) Increase of the permitted density by the allocation of 58 overnight accommodation
units from the Hotel Density Reserve created pursuant to Beach by Design.
Proposed Use: Overnight Accommodations (88-rooms).
Neighborhood Association(s): Clearwater Beach Association and Clearwater Neighborhoods
Coalition.
Presenter: A. Scott Kurleman, Planner III.
Community Development Board Agenda -June 16, 2009 -Page 2 of 3
E. LEVEL THREE APPLICATIONS (Items 1-2):
1. Case: DVA2008-00003 - 20 Kendall Street (Related to FLD2008-00003) Level Thee Application
Owner/Applicant: Panorama on Clearwater Beach, LLC and Evangeline P. Samarkos, as Trustee of
the Evangeline P. Samarkos Revocable Trust UAD 3/27/06, Michael A. Samarkos, Victoria Harkey 106
Midway Island, Clearwater Beach, FL 33767-2313.
Agent: Ed Hooper, Consus Group, LLC (P.0. Box 4268, Clearwater, FL 33758; phone: 727-458-4751;
fax: 727-461-4942).
Location: 0.60 acres is located between the south side of Avalon Street and the north side of Kendall
Street approximately 150 feet west of Mandalay Avenue.
Atlas Page: 258A.
Zoning: Tourist (T) District.
Request: Review of, and recommendation to the City Council, of a Development Agreement between
Panorama on Clearwater Beach, Evangeline P. Samarkos -Trustee, Michael A. Samarkos and
Victoria Harkey (property owners) and the City of Clearwater, providing for the allocation of units
from the Hotel Density Reserve under Beach by Design.
Proposed Use: Overnight accommodation use of a total of 88 rooms (150 rooms/acre on total site,
including the allocation of 58 units from the Hotel Density Reserve) and approximately 1,482 square
feet (1.07 FAR on total site) of amenities accessory to the hotel at a height of 72 feet (to roof deck) and
86.5 feet (to elevator equipment).
Neighborhood Association(s): Clearwater Beach Association and Clearwater Neighborhoods
Coalition.
Presenter: A. Scott Kurleman, Planner III.
2. Case: TA2009-01002 Amendments to the Community Development Code Level Thee Application
Applicant: City of Clearwater, Planning Department.
Request: Amendments to the Community Development Code to bring consistency between the
Countywide Plan Rules and the Community Development Code, and address off street parking for
overnight accommodations in the Tourist District, docks, site visibility triangles, site lighting, design
standards for parking lots and parking garages, off street loading and vehicle stacking spaces, hearing
officer appeals, and transferred development rights.
Neighborhood Association(s): Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition.
Presenter: Lauren Matzke, Planner III.
F. ADJOURNMENT
S: (Planning Department/ C D BI Agendas DRC & CDBI CDB12009106 June 16, 20091 CDB Agenda June 16, 2009.doc
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