Planning and Zoning Board - Regular Meeting

Planning and zoning board meeting Coconut Creek. Would the clerk call the roll, please?

Give me just one second here. Great. Okay. Mr. Scorriaza.

Present.

Mr. Briggs.

Present.

Vice Chair LePlante. Present. Chair Light. Present. Ms. LeJoy. Present. Deputy City Attorney Mahaffy. Present. And Assistant Director of Sustainable Development Lizette Aguilar. Present. And just for the record right now, Ms. Fry is not present, but she should be here shortly.

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Ms. Fry has joined us. This is a little different today. We have a new board member, Ms. LaJoy, who we welcome. I'm going to ask each of the board members to do a little self introduction, starting with our new board member. She would tell us a little bit about herself.

Good evening. I'm Corinne LaJoy. I am a longtime resident in the city. Actually, I've been here about twenty years now in the city. I am an urban and regional planner. I do what your staff does in a different city.

Ms. Fry, you want a few words about yourself?

Oh, sorry. Sorry,

didn't know

we were all

doing introductions. I'm Nancy Fry. I was appointed by Commissioner Walsh, And I have lived in the city now for what year are we in now? I've been here four years. And I have two not so little ones anymore, one at Lyons Creek Meadow, one at Trenton Winds Elementary. And I'm highly involved with all the school students.

Hi, I'm Alex Escoriazza. This is my second time on this board. I also served in the Charter Review Board. I'm a happy Coconut Creek resident. I run my own data and analytics consulting firm, and that's my quick introduction.

Solbrex moved here during COVID five years ago, retired in Windmoor. Long history of working here and there, all related to building design, construction, development, financing, all the steps

you go through before you retire.

Thank you.

Hi Corinne. Welcome back. I had the pleasure to serve with Corinne quite a few years ago, and I'm really glad that you're back because you're definitely an asset. Thank you.

Hi. I'm Jeff Light. I have the honor of chairing this board for this year. I'm retired from New Jersey, where I was an attorney for many years. And then I was a trial court judge in New Jersey Superior Court, trying family law cases and also non jury civil cases, land use, probate, and things like that. So welcome. With that, I'll ask the clerk to swear in. Ms. LaJoy.

So again, just on behalf of our city commission, the city manager's office, city attorney, city clerk's office, we welcome you. We thank you for being willing to serve. I'm gonna come down in front of you, and I'll administer your oath of office. Okay.

Constitution. And that I will well. And that I will well. And faithfully perform.

And faithfully perform. The duties

and of the

zoning board member. The city of Coconut Creek.

For the

city of Coconut Creek. Of which I'm now about to enter. Thank you.

With that, next is the approval of the July. Are there any corrections or revisions to the minutes from the 07/09/2025 meeting? Hearing none, if none, there a motion and a second to approve the minutes as presented?

So moved.

Seconded.

Roll call, please.

Ms. Fry? Yes. Mr. Scorriaza?

Yes.

Mr. Briggs?

Yes.

Vice Chair LaPlante? Yes. Chair Light?

Yes. Okay. We're now going to consider several quasi judicial items with the board attorney. Please explain the city's quasi judicial procedures.

Thank you. First, want to remind everyone to silence your cell phones, Florida courts have determined that there are certain types of matters, including agenda items six and seven on tonight's agenda, that are to be treated differently than other items considered by the board. The board is applying in these cases and in these quasi judicial applications. The board is considering applying existing rules and policies to a factual situation and is therefore acting like a judge in a jury duty in a trial held in a courtroom. In such cases, the courts have decided that due process and fundamental fairness require that more normal procedures be followed.

The board's decision must be based on the evidence and information that is presented at the public hearing, including the agenda materials, staff recommendation, testimony presented at the public hearing, and the deliberations of the board. The quasi judicial procedures require that the board consider the evidence presented to it and base their decision on the applicable law and primarily on credible evidence presented, whether by staff, the applicant, or members of the public. In a quasi judicial proceeding, the board is not allowed to take into consideration public sentiment or the popularity of a particular development proposal or application. The board may only consider competent substantial evidence. This means testimony or other evidence that a reasonable mind would accept as credible and adequate to support a conclusion.

Florida courts have made it clear that mere generalized statements of opposition are to be disregarded, but fact based testimony can be considered competent and substantial evidence. This can include eyewitness observation testimony about relevant facts and documentary evidence, including photographs, aerials, and maps. Citizens who want to participate in a quasi judicial hearing can testify as to factual matters in any element of the case that would not require specialized training or specific academic degrees. Their testimony will be considered provided their testimony is backed up by established facts, studies, or evidence that is not conjecture or just based on a feeling. The quasi judicial hearing process is not a popularity contest.

The strict rules of evidence do not apply during the public hearing, but any comments must be relevant to the agenda item. Everyone who seeks to speak on an item will be given an opportunity to speak. If you intend to provide testimony as to any of the applications to be considered tonight, you will be sworn in before your testimony is taken. Please know if you speak, you may be subject to cross examination. The board may comment or ask questions of persons addressing the board at any time. If you refuse to either be cross examined or to be sworn, your testimony will be considered in that context and given its due weight. The general public will not be permitted to cross examine witnesses but may request that the board direct questions on their behalf to the applicant or staff. Will the clerk please confirm compliance with the notice requirements?

The city has satisfied the legally required public notice for the public hearing for agenda items six and seven.

Will the board clerk please swear in the witnesses for the quasi judicial items six and seven?

Will anyone wishing to speak on the quasi judicial agenda items six or seven please stand and raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? When you come forward to speak, please state your name and address clearly for the record. State whether or not you've been sworn in, and state whether or not you understand the rules of the proceedings.

We will now hear agenda item number six. And if there are no objections from the board, applicants, staff, or the public, we will also hear agenda item seven at the same time since they are related. Are there any objections to that? Proceed. No.

Are there any disclosures on behalf of the board from agenda items six or seven?

I'm not sure if this is required. I live in Windmoor. I've been to that plaza, I don't know, hundreds of times. I'm very familiar with the site. I actually went over there to look at the site.

My disclosure is I have personal familiarity with the site itself.

Thank you. Site visits are an appropriate disclosure.

I frequent that shopping center weekly.

Same. Right.

About a million times.

Right. Thank you.

Okay. The city staff will now make its presentation. Ms. Aguilar.

Thank you. Good evening, Mr. Chair, Vice Chair, Board members, and staff. Congratulations and welcome back. Nice to see you again. Happy to have you back on the board. My name is Liz Aguilar. I'm the assistant director of Sustainable Development Department. And I'd like to introduce this evening our newest member of the department, Deandrea Moise. She is our planning manager.

Good evening, chair, vice chair, and board members. As she mentioned, I'm DeAndrea Moyes. I am the planning manager for the Urban Design and Development Department, and I'm happy to be here. Very excited to get started and really push forward what the city has in mind.

I did practice your last name. I promise I'll get it right the next time around. And joining us here this evening as well is, of course, Justin Proffitt, the Director of our Department of Sustainable Development. I'm sitting back there looking at the plans. So, let's get started.

So, agenda item number six, the Fifth Third Bank Site Plan, and agenda item number seven, the Fifth Third Bank Special Land Use. Agenda item number six is a site plan application to construct a Fifth Third Bank with drive thru facility. Agenda item number seven is a special land use application to permit a drive thru facility as part of the proposed Fifth Third Bank. The applicant, Mikayla Kegley, could not be here this evening, and in her place is Mr. Tim Loken, also from BDG Architects.

On behalf of the property owner, Centro N. P. Coconut Creek LLC is seeking site plan and special land use approval to construct a Fifth Third Bank with drive thru facility to be located at 4805 Coconut Creek Parkway within the existing Coconut Creek Plaza. The subject property is zoned B for regional shopping and has a future land use designation of commercial. For some of our board members who may be a little newer to the city, this is of course the former Italian restaurant.

I myself went there many, many, many times, oftentimes to grab a bite to eat before coming to this meeting time and time again. I was sad to see it closed, but it's been closed for many years. It has sadly fallen into a pretty bad state of disrepair, has several code compliance issues, fallen roof, etcetera. And the applicant, Fifth Third Bank, is proposing to demo the existing building. And in its place, a new building, approximately 2,133 square feet with a dual drive thru, will be in its place.

The site has been designed in compliance with the B4 development standards. Stacking lanes exceed the minimum code requirement of 100 feet with 120 feet instead. Bypass lanes have been designed to accommodate all emergency vehicles, including fire trucks, etcetera. They are proposing EV charging stations and roof mounted solar panels in compliance with our conspicuous display of green technology. And the applicant did complete their public outreach effort.

They invited property owners within 700 feet of the subject property. One person attended the meeting and the city has not received any inquiries or complaints about the project to date. Staff has reviewed the site plan and special land use applications and finds that both agenda item number six, the Fifth Third Bank site plan, and agenda item number seven, the Fifth Third Bank special land use are in compliance with the city's land development code, our special land use application requirements, and the city's comprehensive plan. Staff findings are further summarized in your staff memorandums, and we are recommending approval of agenda item number six and number seven. That does conclude staff's presentation.

I'm happy to take any questions from the board. And, the applicant is here this evening. Mr. Logan is here this evening with a brief presentation as well.

Mr. Logan?

Are there any questions of staff? I have one technical question. It's an odd question. The date on your memo, the staff memo, is dated today. So I just didn't know if that was a practice to date the staff memo, the date of the actual application, because obviously you didn't prepare it today.

No, we did not prepare it today. It was prepared weeks ago, but because it does reflect today's meeting date.

Thank you. You're welcome.

Good evening. Do I need to swear in or do I just start?

Just state whether or not you were sworn in

and how you understand.

Case. That's right. So, name is Tim Woken, BDG Architects, speaking on behalf of our client Fifth Third Bank. I was sworn in earlier, and I see a three minute clock. Do I have three minutes, or is it a No,

that's public. All

right, and welcome Corinne. Nice to have you on the board. I don't think so. Let me double click here. Okay, this presentation is very similar to the presentation that we had prepared for the public outreach meeting, which occurred about a month ago.

And I had the pleasure of meeting Mayor Jacqueline Reilly, which was great to meet her as well. And so, that was a fun opportunity, and we've enjoyed the collaboration with the staff here on this project. So, excited to share this with you all. Alright, so a few talking points that I was going to speak to on this presentation is the site plan and aesthetic designs, and the sustainability features of this proposed new branch bank for Fifth Third, and then, of course, any questions and answers or feedback that you may have at the end. So, as you all know, the project is located at 4805 Coconut Creek Parkway in the shopping center.

You could almost call it a bank row, somewhat like a restaurant row, except there's a number of banks here as outparcels. But it's right there at the corner. Great location. Great site with the trees. So, I'll keep moving.

When it comes to the site plan aesthetic design, we worked with the staff on achieving a harmonious and efficient design as it relates to the neighbors and to the surrounding area. You can see on the top two slides are renderings of the Fifth Third Bank. You'll see it's a combination of masonry water table base, EFIS at the upper levels, and then clad metal panel canopies. It's called ACM, aluminum composite metal, along with aluminum storefront systems. The blue and the green that you see is a corporate Fifth Third branding.

They call them their wing walls. It's kind of just a notable feature that's recognizable amongst Fifth Third branch banks, and that has been incorporated as well into the design. As far as the color palette, we work to achieve, you know, a harmonious effect with the other neighbors being, you know, kind of in the off white neutral colors, as well as the masonry stone base as well. Another feature of the site is the preservation of the natural state. We've really minimized the amount of soil and tree removals.

There's a lot of great mature trees on this site. And of course, the landscaping, you know, is in compliance with what's required by the time of Coconut Creek. It looks like there's a formatting error on the slide, so apologies for some of the bleeding of the imagery there. But this slide was meant to communicate that we worked with the fire department to ensure that there is adequate fire truck lane access around the site. And I believe that it might even be marked with markings where the fire zone goes around the site so that there wouldn't be anybody potentially parking or impeding the flow of a fire truck.

Furthermore, the site has access to public ways. We've highlighted that in yellow. What you're looking here is a clip of the site plan. The front door in this view is facing plan south, and you'll see that the branch bank sidewalk is connected to the access to public way sidewalk, highlighted in yellow. We've also designed the access of vehicular ingress and egress, and that's highlighted in the yellow plan north.

And, that would be north of the egress access is the shopping center. And so, a vehicle would come into the shopping center site and be able to, you know, egress in and out of the site. And then, of course, not highlighted in yellow is the circulation that one would take if they're going to use the drive up teller machine or the ATM machine, and the ability to also bypass out of there. We've also included stormwater control. So not only does the site have its own stormwater infrastructure, but we've also included like a bioswale for containment for some of the storm water as a sustainability measure.

Yeah, something happened to the graphics on this page. But, this is meant to speak to the photometrics of the site. And so, there's not going to be any glare or direct illumination to adjacent properties. It is a financial institution, it is a bank, and so safety is of utmost importance. And those areas are well lit to the numbers that they need to be, but we've also strategically placed our lights and lamps so that we're not trespassing light onto other properties.

During the construction of this process, we will be closely monitoring and working with the contractor to ensure that they are putting in the means and methods and the different details to ensure that there's construction pollution prevention measures in place. And so, we'll work with them to implement that. And, of course, there'll be folks on the town side with the inspectors. I'm sure that that's in compliance as well. Now we're getting into our sustainability features.

And so, of the items that we're implementing is the construction site materials recycling. And with any Fifth Third Bank, quite honestly, they implement this across their whole corporate footprint when they're building a new bank. And they're also managed by CBRE during construction, and they keep a log, and they instruct the contractors on what the expectations are and how to track and log the construction waste materials, both from the demolition and during construction when it comes to any waste that is generated during the construction process. And that gets into separating of metals and concretes and aluminums, and looking to divert as much waste as possible into recycling. From an alternative transportation perspective, we will be including bike racks as well as electric vehicle charging stations.

I believe there's one electric vehicle charging station provided with the site. Another sustainability feature will be to minimize the heat island effect. I'm sure you guys may have heard or know of the cool roof, and that's basically a white TPO to help reflect, you know, the harsh sunlight. And we'll be implementing that. And also, not only there are great existing trees, but we'll be planting additional trees.

And that also works to minimize the heat island effect with the shade, you know, that the trees provide. We've implemented innovative water technologies. And so not only are we doing the low flow water features, but battery powered so that they're not left running when somebody walks away from the room. Water efficient toilets. And then the water fountains will have the touchless bottle filler included with the water fountain.

We have a solar panel system that has been designed for the roof. In speaking recently with staff, we confirmed that it's designed to a kilowatt system capacity. And to put that in perspective, it actually kind of surprised me that this would be enough to power a single family home. So I was actually impressed by that. I was expecting it to be something like the street lights, But it will have the ability to generate a good amount of power.

And this will be offset to the grid. This won't be specifically generating bank itself, but it will be tied into the power grid system. And then we have conspicuous display of green technology by the BioSwell. So, rather than just being a gully or a ditch itself, we have worked in the landscape design to enhance and beautify and be that conspicuous display of the green technology that this was purposely designed and planned, and it is a feature that is visually pleasing. And with that is the conclusion of my presentation. Are there any questions?

They may be in a little bit, so you can have a seat for now.

Okay, thank you all.

I'll now open the public hearing. Are there any members of the public who would like to speak on agenda item six or seven? Okay. Seeing none, Does city staff have any questions for the applicant or anyone who's spoken on this issue?

Not at this time.

Does applicant have any question for city staff?

The

public hearing is now closed. Do members of the board have any questions for city staff, the applicant, or the applicant?

Oh, thank you.

That was quick. All right. I will be the annoying one and start asking questions then. So, I just had a couple of quick questions for the applicant. I think those sustainability features are fantastic. Can you tell me, where is that bioswale going to be located?

Sure, let me try to paint a picture with a visual. The

professional is helping me.

Okay, so on the screen here isn't the official site plan, but it is a clip from the site plan. You'll see Plan West of the site. You see the ADA parking spaces, and then what's marked out as a loading zone, and then the sort of kidney bean shaped or sort of curved linear area is the bioswale.

Okay, great. And then the EV charging parking spot, is that going to be for customers only, or is that just a first come, first serve, whoever gets to it?

It won't be police. It will be first come, first serve, but it certainly would be for the public's use, and we wouldn't want the branch manager to be using it, you know, all day, every day.

I meant more like if it was reserved for customers only, if you had to be a customer and get some kind of code or something.

No, no, it would be public use, yeah.

Okay, great. And then, the exit only links, I saw there's the, on the west side, have the entrance and exit. And then, on the east side, there's an exit only. Is that going to be clearly delineated because given the number of banks and the number of drive thrus along that row, I know I myself would probably get

confused pretty quickly. Sure, yes. No, you're right. And it will be clearly delineated not only with the painting markings that are on the ground, but we also work with the signage vendor, which goes through its own permitting process, and there'll be directional signage as well in place.

Okay,

great. And then just a quick question for city staff. I mean, I can gather the answer based on the fact that this is in front of us, but do we have anything in city code that prohibits or limits the number of the same type of business to be in a single spot?

There's nothing in the code that would clearly say the number of banks, for instance, that could be located in the plaza. So, the short answer to that is no.

I know that's something that Coral Springs has been looking at for other types of businesses.

Right. Yes, I've heard of that as well, but no, not in this instance, or not anywhere in the code does it say that there's a limitation. Unless this was a special land use for the use. In this instance, the special land use is for the drive thru, but if this was a special land use for the actual use, there could be some limitations, numerical limitations on it, but that wouldn't be the case in this instance.

Very good. Well, glad to see that area finally getting cleaned up. Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

This might be a question to city staff then. So if the application is for the drive through, would there be no process through planning and zoning if it was just a land lease and they were within compliance of current zoning?

If the bank were proposing a freestanding bank without a drive thru, the site plan application would still come before the The reason we have the two applications separately is one is for the drive thru uses, and one is for the actual building.

Yeah, makes sense. Okay. No other questions. I guess Bank Boulevard would be the term.

So this is a very general question. I actually have never heard of this bank because I'm from the Northeast, and just never came across this branch. It seems to be fairly small in size. Maybe it's average, but it just appears to be fairly small. Is this a full service banking branch with, you know, you can store your jewelry, you could do some investments like a typical branch, or is this a very narrow use

Sure. Of In the general, it is a full service with the exception it does not have a safety deposit vault. Fifth Third Bank has a number of prototypical floor plans that they have at their disposal. And this gets into the real estate managers and corporate. But when they look at sites and they look at the area, there's a study that they do on their end, and they deem, you know, what will fit and what the market will serve, and they choose the footprint.

But what the footprint really comes down to all the banks have a very open plan concept. It's almost like the homes nowadays that have the open plan concepts. So, than the teller lines behind glass, you have almost like a walk up bar. It's very casual, very open. They have what's called the technology wall.

And so, one of the things when you come right in, there's a large television screen with a display desk. And somebody will greet you, and if the transaction warrants itself, they may do the transaction on a pad rather than So, taking you to the teller it has this very sort of open office flex space kind of feel to it. There's a couple other side spaces for more private meetings. If you're closing on a house or applying for a loan, they have what's called a booth area, and that's a little bit more of a private nook. So, in general, all the banks have a mix of those key programmatic spaces.

It's just whether or not the larger banks would have two booths versus one booth, or three meeting rooms versus one meeting room. But in general, they found that only their largest footprint, which is nearly 4,000 square feet, has the safety deposit vault. The rest of them do not. And I think that's a business decision that they've made just looking at trends. So, does that answer your question?

Yeah, yeah. I mean, we live in an area where there are snowbirds. So, people come from the Northeast. So, when I came here, was always looking for the bank that I had up north, I didn't have to change very much. I continued. In my case, was T. E. Bank. It sounds like a Midwest, Southern kind of connection along maybe 'seventy '5. And people will come here and look for their branch. I don't know. Thinking about

Sure, yeah. I mean, they're headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, and they're pretty well known there. They're in the middle of what they call the Southeast expansion. And so they're aggressively building in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. Thank you. That's it. Yeah, you're welcome.

Hi. I have one question for you, or actually staff probably. Maybe I missed it, but how many drive throughs will there be?

Would you like me to answer? So, it's a two lane drive through. The first lane is up against the building, so that would be the one, the arrow that's closest to the building on the north side of that floor plan. That's what they call a V. T. Virtual assistant teller.

Okay.

So, you don't have the drive thru window that you would maybe associate with older banks. So, is a small kiosk with a television or a little monitor screen for the transaction to happen. The second drive thru lane, which is the second arrow, Plan North, an ATM machine. It's a stand alone ATM with a small canopy over it. So it's a very minimal sort of integration to the site. There's a small canopy on the rear, and then there's just a small canopy over the ATM. You can kind of see it Yeah, I couldn't read right here

on this image

Oh, see. So that's what I was wondering if the whole thing was covered. So just that ATM just has like something over it so when people are reaching out.

That's right. And then that virtual assistant teller has a canopy on the building much like what you see at the front door and it overhangs the vehicle as well.

I think the whole concept and the structure of it is just super amazing. Down by me on the North end, they just renovated one of the banks down there with a similar with this one counter standing up, just made it like really it needed it. So maybe now the other banks are going to

catch And if I oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead.

So that was just the questions that I had for you. And then for staff, I just for the demolition and also the build out, are there going to be certain times, like hours, that this should be you know, like with all that publics there and the traffic and everything, I just was a little concerned with that.

Well, the first thing they will need to do is to get a demolition permit from the building division. And generally, what we see for construction sites such as this one where it's site, it's landscaping, it's drainage, it's everything, they'll more than likely put a construction fence all around Around the

whole thing, right.

So they'll create a compound where work will happen. So you won't really get, the public won't have access to it. And with respect to the hours, generally no, because a lot of the demolition would happen during a normal day. They wouldn't be out there demoing the building at night when it's dark.

The

only time you ever really see those types of extended hours or after hours is when you've got these tall buildings where they need to truck in a Yeah, lot of

because this probably could

be But something small like this would normally just Okay. Function during the

And then I'm glad that so the drive thru will exit on the north side, just like the bank next to it. Yes. And I think that will that's perfect. Like that.

It accesses straight into the internal existing drive aisle, so it's just a nice fluid circulation right into the without changes to the drive aisle.

Thank you. Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Thank you.

I have a couple of areas of concern, actually. One is you don't seem to have very many parking spaces.

Sure.

There are like 10 maybe? 13, unless I'm missing something. It looks like there are 10 parking spaces. Is that it? 12. I'm missing that?

There's a total of 12.

And one of them is an EV space?

One of them is an EV space, and two of them One AV space, but disability One is disability. There's one ADA space, one vehicle charging space that is part of that overall parking count.

Okay. So, then you only have, what, nine spaces for the public? Is that right?

Nine spaces. Eight spaces. That's right.

They do meet the minimum parking requirements for the size of the building. Really? Yes.

So, where's, when do you anticipate the, I assume you're going to have employees. I know it's very, very technologically advanced, but I assume there'll be somebody working there.

Sure. There's approximately three to four employees there at one time.

All right. Where are they going to park?

They will have the ability to park in this parking lot. I will say that, in regards to the numbers that the bank tries to hit, that's an equation that kind of exceeds my role as an architect, but they have, you know, worked with their peak hours of demand and things like that. And the 12 parking spaces or so is pretty common for this bank, and it serves them well. The only times that we really face challenges is if we're renovating an existing building, and there's times where we actually have too many parking spaces for that type of use, and we have to look at ways to reduce them. But I don't know if any of my civil engineers have any comment, but I've never run across a challenge on the parking when we meet the requirement.

Right, and so the site does meet the minimum requirements for the number of parking spaces. In addition, the drive thru, is quite often, or more often used than somebody who comes in and parks, is these stacking lanes exceed the minimum code requirement. So, where the city's code would require that each lane be at least 100 feet, that would accommodate roughly five cars each. These are at about 120 feet each. So, they would accommodate six cars each. So, they've got an excess of two.

Is there going to be an ATM machine that you walk up to or just the one in the drive in?

Just the one in the drive.

Okay. All right. So you meet the requirements. So, you know, there's nothing I can do about that. That's fine. It just seems between the EV space, the ADA space, and several employees, you have like a couple of parking spaces for patrons. Obviously, that's your business decision. Seems The other concern I have is the distance between the exit lane and the stop sign at the roadway that runs from Coconut Creek Parkway into Plaza. No, the other side, the exit.

The stop sign here?

Yeah. When you look at the current site, if you're coming out of there and you want to make a right, there's not even enough room for a car to be fully in the roadway. You're sort of at an angle because the driveway is too close to the stop sign, to the road coming through. And I was wondering if you've altered that or what the distance is between the edge of the driveway and the roadway that comes through the plaza.

Do you want to speak to this?

May I have my civil engineer speak to this? Certainly.

Hello, good evening. My name is Bharat Poon Vasanaparid. I'm a civil engineer at Infinity Engineering Group.

And, you've been sworn in.

And, I've been sworn in for this. So, based off the site plan, right, from the edge, the distance from the edge at this point right here to this point, it's about 26 feet, which is enough for a car length to park without being encroaching into.

Okay, is that more than the current configuration?

So, the car, basic car, typical car is like nine feet by 20 feet.

So, the current site configuration, the current site configuration, like how it currently is before our building.

Yes. Sorry, could you repeat that question, please?

Yeah, is that more than if you went out to the site now, what's the distance between the edge of that driveway and the stop sign?

They

look to be about the same. It actually looks like the new configuration may actually be a little bit wider.

Yes, sir. It's about the same. Yeah, existing seems to be lesser than what we proposed to, so.

Yeah, okay. And, I just would like to add that our transportation reviewer, Michael Ragetti, he was instrumental in the design of this access. And, it's actually been widened with the idea that it does get a little bit pinched so that it's wide enough for an emergency vehicle, like a fire truck, to be able to make that turn and exit the site, but pinched enough so that it discourages incoming traffic. The goal being that you can only exit with proper signage and stop bars rather than create an opening that's large enough to create confusion and have assume that you can also enter the site. It's intended to be exit only.

Alright, thank you.

You're welcome. Thank you.

Yeah, I've done, I have nothing further. Anyone else have anything following up on? Any other questions that have arisen? Seeing none, Will the applicant or staff like to make closing remarks?

Not at this time. Thank you.

I'll just take a moment to generally say thank you. It's been a pleasure so far to be working with Coconut Creek, and we look forward to moving on to the next step. Thank you.

Thank you. Are there any comments or deliberations from the board on agenda item six, the site plan application for the Fifth Third Bank? If none, I'll take a motion on agenda item number six, the site plan application for Fifth Third Bank.

I'll make a motion to approve the site plan application to construct a Fifth Third Bank drive thru facility. Second.

The Clerk roll the roll, please.

Ms. Frye? Yes. Mr. Escoriasa?

Yes.

Mr. Briggs?

Yes.

Vice Chair LePlante? Yes. Chair Light?

Yes. Are there any comments or deliberations from the board on agenda item seven, the special land use application for the drive thru facility for the Fifth Third Bank. If there are none, I'll take a motion on agenda item seven, the special land use application for Fifth Third Bank.

I'll make a motion on item number seven for the Fifth Third Bank, a special land use application to permit a drive thru facility.

Second. Clerk roll the roll please.

Ms. Frye? Yes. Mr. Escoriasa?

Yes.

Mr. Briggs?

Yes.

Vice Chair LePlante?

Yes.

Chair Light?

Yes. The board of staff have correspondence reports to share for the good of the board.

Just a couple of updates. At the city commission thank you. Thank you all for being here. At the city commission meeting on August 7, the Vinke Mulder overlay area, which you all were part of, was approved on second reading. The other big news was that the Main Street Developer agreement, which we have been working on for the better part of a year, was also approved or recommended for approval by not recommended approved by the city commission. So we have those two kind of big announcements. Other than that, nothing further to add at this time.

When mentioning the Vinca Mulder, what was the final outcome of the issue with acre the minimum lot and no variance issue? Did that remain the same?

I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear the last part.

There was the issue that was raised with regard to the minimum acreage of two lot, the two acre lot, no variance issue. What was the commission resolution of that?

Right. That condition was removed. It was taken out of the proposed ordinance.

Excellent. Thank you. You're welcome. Anything further from anyone? With that, I'll take a motion to adjourn the meeting.

So moved.

Second.

We need a second on adjourn? Third, fourth. Okay. The meeting is adjourned. Thank you everyone.

Thank you all.