COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BOARD AGENDA - June 21, 2011Clearwater
AGENDA
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BOARD
Date: Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Time: 1:00 p.m.
Place: 112 South Osceola Street, 3'a Floor,
Clearwater, Florida, 33756
(City Hall Council Chambers)
05/23/2011
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
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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
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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
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testify, present evidence, argument and witnesses cross-examine witnesses, appeal the decision
and speak on reconsideration requests.
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A. CALL TO ORDER, INVOCATION, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
B. ROLL CALL: Chair Fritsch, Vice Chair Coates, Members Adelson, Barker, Hinrichs, Dame,
DiPolito, Alternate Member Carlough, City Staff
C. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING: May 17, 2011.
D. LEVEL TWO APPLICATIONS (Items 1-3):
1. Case: FLD2011-04015 - 2680 Gulf to Bay Blvd. Level Two Application
Owner/Applicant: Clant, Inc./OSI Restaurant Partners, LLC.
Agent: David Fuxan, Fuxan Engineering, Inc. (15018 Maurine Cove Lane, Odessa, FL 33556 phone:
813-792-7949; fax: 813-792-7507; email: dfuxan Qfuxaneng corn)
Location: 1.81 acres located at the northwest corner of Gulf to Bay Blvd. and Parlc Place Blvd.
Atlas Page: 291A
Zoning: Commercial (C) District
Request: Flexible Development approval to permit a 7,007 square foot restaurant in an existing
building in the Commercial (C) District with a lot area of 78,985 feet, a lot width of 286 feet (along
Gulf to Bay Blvd.) and 262 feet (along Park Place Blvd.), a building height of 26 feet (to top of flat
roof), a front (south) setback of 7.3 feet (to existing pavement) and 83 feet (to existing building), a
front (east) setback of 10 feet (to existing pavement) and 150 feet (to existing building), a side (west)
setback of five feet (to existing pavement) and 36 feet (to existing building), a side (north) setback of
4.5 feet (to existing pavement) and 82 feet (to existing building), and 109 parking spaces as a
Comprehensive Infill Redevelopment Project under the provisions of Community Development Code
Section 2-704.C. as well as a reduction to the perimeter landscape buffer along Gulf to Bay Blvd.
from 15 feet to 7.3 feet and a reduction to the side (north) perimeter landscape buffer from five feet to
4.5 feet as a Comprehensive Landscape Program under the provisions of Community Development
Code Section 3-1202.G.
Proposed Use: Restaurant (Carrabba's Italian Grill)
Neighborhood Association(s): Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition
Presenter: A. Scott Kurleman, Planner III
2. Case: FLD2011 - 03014 - 2241 Nursery Road Level Two Application
Owner: Tagaras, Ioannis V, Revocable Living Trust
Applicant: Samira Karie, (2699 Seville Boulevard, Clearwater, FL 33764; phone: 727-410-2198;
email: samira2304@hotmail.com)
Location: 0.32 acres located along the south side of Nursery Road approximately 307 feet east of the
Belcher Road (CR-501) and Nursery Road (CR-474) intersection.
Atlas Page: 317A
Zoning: Commercial (C) District
Request: Flexible Development approval for a 2,100 square foot restaurant in an existing 2,728 square
foot building in the Commercial (C) District with a lot area of 14,100 square feet, a lot width of 141 feet
(along Nursery Road), front (north) setbacks of 7 feet (to pavement) and 24.7 feet (to building), side
(east) setback of 10 feet (to building), rear (south) setbacks of zero feet (to pavement) and 19 feet (to
building), side (west) setbacks of zero feet (to pavement) and 66 feet (to building), a building height of
24 feet (to midpoint of pitched roof), and 15 off-street parking spaces as a Comprehensive Infill
Redevelopment Project under the provisions of Community Development Code Section 2-704.C.
Proposed Use: Restaurant
Neighborhood Association(s): Morningside Meadows, Imperial Park, and Clearwater Neighborhoods
Coalition
Presenter: Kevin W. Numberger, Planner III
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Case: FLD2011-03013- 1411 N. Ft. Harrison Avenue Level Two Application
Owner/Applicant: The Community Learning Center, Inc.
Agent: Dana Hanson (1611 N. Ft. Harrison Ave., Clearwater, FL 33755; phone: 727-793-8046; fax:
727-441-2721; email: msdanahansona,gmail.corn)
Location: 1.06 acres located between Ft. Harrison Avenue and Garden Avenue approximately 50 feet
south of Marshall Street.
Atlas Page: 268B
Zoning: Commercial (C) District
Request: Flexible Development approval to permit a Social/Public Service Agency in the
Commercial (C) District with a lot area of 46,574 square feet, a lot width of 226 feet (along N Ft.
Harrison Avenue) and 116 feet (along Garden Avenue), a building height of 27 feet, a front (west)
setback of 36.6 feet (to existing building) and 5.15 feet (to existing pavement), a front (east) setback
of 119.3 feet (to existing building) and 2.8 feet (to existing pavement), a side (north A) setback of 102
feet (to existing building) and 3.5 feet (to existing pavement), a side (north B) setback of 3.2 feet (to
existing pavement), a side (south) setback of 34.9 feet (to existing building) and two feet (to existing
pavement), a rear (east) setback of 54 feet (to existing building) and six feet (to existing pavement),
and 35 parking spaces as a Comprehensive Infill Redevelopment Project, under the provisions of
Community Development Code Section 2-704.C.,as well as a reduction to the perimeter landscape
buffer along N. Ft. Harrison Avenue from 15 feet to 5.15 feet, a reduction to the perimeter landscape
buffer along Garden Avenue from 10 feet to 2.8 feet, a reduction to the perimeter landscape buffer
along the side (south) from five feet to two feet, a reduction to the perimeter landscape buffer along
the side (north A) from five feet to 3.5 feet, and reductions to the foundation landscape requirement
on the front (west) facade from five feet to two feet and the front (east) facade from five feet to zero
feet as part of a Comprehensive Landscape Program under the provisions of Community
Development Code Section 3-1202.G.
Proposed Use: Social/Public Service Agency
Neighborhood Association(s): Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition
Presenter: A. Scott Kurleman, Planner III
E. CONSIDERATION OF APPEAL (Item 1):
1. Case: APP2011-00004
Appellant: Ashley Furniture
Agent: Todd Pressman (P.O. Box 6015, Palm Harbor, FL 34677; phone: 727-804-1760; fax: 1-888-
977-1179).
Request: An appeal of an administrative interpretation of Section 3-1806.B.1.h., Community
Development Code, with regard to from where the 14-foot measurement of a freestanding sign at an
elevated intersection is to be measured.
Neighborhood Association(s): Clearwater Neighborhoods Coalition
Presenter: Ellen Crandall, Planner H
F. ADJOURNMENT
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