Community Redevelopment Agency - Regular Meeting

We are calling the meeting of the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency to order.

Chair Burns?

Here. Vice chair Markert?

Here.

Deputy vice chair Kasab? Here. And commissioner Carney?

Here. K.

May I have a motion and a second for the approval of the agenda, please?

So moved. Second.

Vice chair Markert?

Yes.

Deputy vice chair Casal? Yes. Commissioner Carney?

Yes.

And chair Burns?

Yes. K. If this is the time for public comment, do we have anyone for a public comment?

George looks ready. Oh, come on, mister Longstreet. Come on, George. So you got something you gotta say.

See none.

Even if just you guys are doing a great job.

Mean, you

it's he's relaxing and sitting.

No. No. Sit down. Really. Don't drink with him.

Thank you. Doctor. Tiana. Public comment closed. Such a comment. Move on. Alright. Let me have and may I have a motion and second for the approval of the consent agenda?

So moved. Second. Deputy vice chair Kissel? Yes. Commissioner Kearney?

Yes.

Chair Burns?

You're not for me. I did not. Oh.

Oh, yes. I think you were quitting.

Vice chair.

Identity issues here. Yes. And and I'm a yes, Tracy.

Thank you. Okay. So we are at old business, and we have none. Oh, gosh. This is gonna be an Adam Frankel moment.

I've got two minutes.

You're gonna do it.

New business item nine a Christine. Oh, you didn't? Renee. Are you okay?

Through it.

Okay. Yeah.

So this

is oh.

Good afternoon, commissioners. This is the Northwest 600 Block Of West Atlantic Avenue. If you're not familiar with this block, we are doing a mixed use project here. The red outline shows where the residential portion will go, and the blue outline shows where the commercial unit one story commercial unit will go on Northwest 6. That is also near the Hatcher Construction two two story buildings that we have ground lease with Hatcher Construction Development on. So just go through the project here. Oops. Beautiful. Okay. So this is a aerial rendering of the site.

And you're seeing it from the Northwest 7th Avenue site looking at the row of 12 residential townhomes with the detached ADU above the garage. And then you'll see Beautiful. That's stunning.

It looks nice. It's gonna

be And this is just the aerial rendering. And then you'll also see our one story and this is just a rendering, one story commercial unit on Northwest 6th Avenue. That is the backside there. And you'll also see to the south side of that miss Hatcher Construction Development bought the lot next to our lot, and they are also doing a commercial office space there as well. They're going through the site plan conditional use approval process.

So, just to go into the townhomes with the ADUs, these are twelve two story contiguous townhomes. The principal units all face Northwest 7th Avenue. Each townhome will have three bedrooms, 2.5 bathrooms, internal courtyard, detached one car garage with vehicle entrance off of the abutting alleyway to the east, additional off street parking for two cars, and the ADU, like I mentioned earlier, will be above the garage. The ADU will have a full kitchen, one bedroom, and one bathroom with fully separate entrance from the principal unit just to go into the layout.

Unit can park three cars?

Yes. Each unit will be able to park three cars off of the street.

That's pretty amazing.

Yeah. And so you'll see the layout here.

It's a nice floor plan. Damn.

Yes. So you'll see on the top is the act the 2nd Floor. You'll see to the left side there oops. I'm gonna do this wrong. The left side here, this is the ADU floor plan. You'll see the one bedroom, one bath, full kitchen, and a living space. And then on the right side here, this is the 2nd Floor layout with the three bedrooms. And then on the bottom, this is the principal unit with living room. There's a powder room, dining, kitchen. Then you'll see the internal courtyard and then you'll see the garage and then the driveway space.

So And the 80 is about what? 300 square feet or so? Three three

It looks like it's gonna be 23 by 23.

23 by 23. So yeah. Yeah. Okay. Good.

So it's a one car garage and then two cars can park on the in the back area?

Yes.

Right here. Okay.

Yeah. Then you'll see there is a covered entrance from the driveway just above the single car garage there so that you can enter into the courtyard. You'll see the staircase that goes up to the ADU and then the back entrance into the principal unit. So there that is a shared internal courtyard, but separate units or separate entrances for the ADU and the principal unit. And, of course, the principal unit will have the main entrance off of Northwest 7th Avenue.

And then you'll see this is the viewpoint from the alleyway. So you'll see the garage, the two parking spaces in the driveway and the entrance off of the driveway into the courtyard there. And then the improved alleyway that is going to come through via the Northwest Infrastructure Project on the city side.

Are these the colors they've chosen, Christine?

So these are the colors in the rendering, but we still have to finalize everything as we well, I'm I'm glad you like them.

But we you have some options. Yeah. Caribbean style.

I like it. Color. Yeah. But I have no taste in it, so you tell me.

I know. I like the blue. I mean, it look. That is beautiful. I don't care what color it is. However, there's a blue with the render. I I like the blue.

It's a blue better.

It just yeah. It looks a little so whenever you can see the rendering with blue Yeah. You tell me.

Well, these these will these are just the renderings right now to give you a size or sense of scale.

Right. No.

But this is beautiful. Yeah.

I I I would not make a fuss about a color.

Get get the units there. Oh, look at the courtyard.

And then this will this is the aerial view of the internal courtyard, so you'll see how they are lining up next to each other. And then just another view. This is looking out towards the principal unit looking towards ADU. So you'll see the covered entrance way and then the stairs up to the ADU. And then so currently right now we're awaiting final approval of the city's amendment to the LDRs allowing for the development of ADUs without that we won't be able to submit our site plan application.

So we are pending that right now. The amendment to the LDR is allowing for the ADUs is scheduled for first reading to go before the City Commission on March 9. And then we've been told it's tentatively scheduled for second reading on April 7. It has already gone before planning and zoning board. This is where it is right now and we are waiting for those approvals in order to submit for site plan.

Alright. Sounds wonderful. And it's So is it. I just put put it back on that one side with the the the red lines and the blue lines.

Yeah. So the, yeah, the area.

My first residence when we first moved to Delray Beach was right there. Which number? Number 26 And 32 because it was a duplex. That was my first home for the first five years of living here in Delray. How

long that goes home?

Oh, it was 1968. Wow. Yes. That's so cool. Yes.

So they should be renaming this development really the Burns Commons

or

Oh,

it Thomas. I was not married.

Oh, Thomas.

Oh, Thomas. Yes. Thomas. My maiden name

is Thomas.

For you to of them are doing perfect.

But, yes, this is one if I'm excited about it. So hey. Any questions?

Any Any questions on the residential portion?

No. It's

beautiful. Okay. I'll do

the next I

think this is gonna be great for the neighborhood. I think it's a real Absolutely. It was who was the architect? It's a really nice design. Design.

This is Sinolovsky Romanikin Se.

Oh. Nice design. They did a nice job.

Okay. Yeah. They also worked with us on 98 Northwest 5th Avenue.

Okay.

Yeah. And they also worked with us on the Welbrock House, the white CRA office. They've It's

not masonry modern, is a start.

Yes. We specifically instructed them not to do that. This is very good.

This is very nice. Very nice. Yes. Very nice.

So next, Renee Jadison, executive director. We're gonna jump over to the commercial unit now. So that is the blue outline. So when we originally did this RFQ design process, it was a mixed use for the entire space, I guess. But as this evolved, it turned more into this it made more sense for this to be townhouses and then to just have the one commercial aspect, I guess, on this side because of William Hatcher's building was being developed, so we thought it would be nice to complement and have that on the street.

We were also really trying to maximize what we could do with the housing. So that addition of the accessory dwelling unit with the courtyard, it just let them have more flexibility there to really focus on housing on Northwest 7th. So we are have still have been working on the commercial unit alongside with the residential. But as you saw, we can't move too far forward with the residential until we have that accessory dwelling unit study. But we can move forward with the commercial unit.

So we've been working with the city, going through the process. It's a one story commercial unit that fronts Northwest 6th Avenue, parking on the alley, which you can see here. And it's just the one story, so it gradually tapers down from Atlantic to the more residential, going towards the neighborhood. All right. So current status is we're preparing for the site plan application to the city and we are trying to finalize the exterior color scheme, which is what we're looking for today as board input on the colors. We already heard blue is a favorite color. We heard green. And green. We're gonna mean, you know.

And then we're gonna pop

toward yellow, which is very popular on

We have some options.

They need to see the blue.

We have yes. So we're gonna go through the colors now. So just let us know what you like and whatever you pick, we'll go forward with the city site plan application. Here is the green.

I'll see. Okay. Here we go. Here we go.

Here's where it gets good. Here's where it gets good. Okay. Audience participation is welcome, maybe, if we wanna have

Yeah. Mister Long.

Way long on this.

Careful what you ask.

I I'm sorry. I just wanna jump in here. You'll kinda see in this image the proposed rendering for the Hatcher Construction Development Building. They're going for a more modern look. So he is coincidentally and conveniently using the same architect as us. So that's why it was added to some of these renderings we see.

Alright. So here's green.

Yeah. This is the blue. That's blue? That's my blue.

White blue.

Because that's the white.

It looks white. With the blue accent. I'm

still with the green door.

With a green door. Okay. Keep

going because that's not what I remember. But okay.

I think the the screens make them look a little different than the the computer screens versus the TV screen. So the coloring so we can send the the actual paint chip colors after but with

green trim

instead of blue with

Yeah. Green.

I think that's your fuchsia. It looked more fuchsia on the screen.

This one's lighter. Oh, that's it. That's it? Yes.

I like the green.

We can do other colors. I know.

I'm gonna defer to I mean, I think all of the choices are pretty darn good. All good.

The blue ones.

I like

that. Oh, there there is. This is

the one that

you

like.

It just

looks Yeah.

It looked more white just now. But yeah. This It's is

got a like a

Greenish tree around Georgia.

I like that. I like that.

And we can kinda play with the colors, tones, and everything. But this if we like this type of vibe, then we can go forward with that.

I love it. Okay. I love I love the way it looks.

Right. That's that's what I said because the project is such a great project. Really doesn't matter about the color unless you put like pinky

yellow. Right.

Right. They're all compatible with this part of style.

So Right. And that's what we tried.

Just don't make it yellow.

No. No. We want we'll go with this color scheme. And we had a few different renditions too because we were trying originally, the design was a little more like the Hatcher Building, which we didn't want that kind of squared off. We really wanted something that had the the pitched roof and the more little architectural details, which is how we landed on this style. So it went through some renditions.

But Cedar Syracuse orange. Ew. Ew. True.

This is great.

Thank you. We're

not Alright. We have our input so we're gonna go to forward with

have this house on that street in Sherwood. It was purple. We had this purple house. Yeah.

We didn't pick any purple.

That's from where we used to be purple. That's funny.

Okay. We

could always tell this house because we're like,

I don't love her.

I don't either.

So that's all we needed. It was just support input. We don't need to vote. We just wanted to get the

I'm so excited.

Amazing. Yep.

We're ready to go. We'll update you all as we go along with the the townhouses as well, but this one will be going through for site plan soon. Okay. Cool. Thank you.

I'm very easy to excite. I just wanna get it developed.

It's happening. It's happening. Yes. It's gonna be exciting.

We got a great design. This is cool. Commercial property looks good. Mhmm. And even though they choose See

how it looks here and there?

It look yeah. It looks they look different. This too.

This Well, this is you can see this is more vivid. You can really see the the the different colors.

And that's what happened with the blue. I saw it on this kind of a screen first as opposed to that. So It's beautiful.

Yeah. The blue it looks different. Yeah. Does.

Okay. That looks different. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Alright. Alright. Perfect. Thank you.

So where are we now? You have comments. Are we at comments by Renee?

That's all we have today.

Well, all right. Doctor. Yes, short meeting.

Next meeting we'll have you here for a little bit longer. We have a lot coming up next meeting, but this meeting a little bit lighter. But we had some business that we definitely had to get voted on under consent. So thank you. Okay. Comments first. Well, I wanted to recognize that our chair is being honored at the African diaspora this weekend. I just wanna say congratulations. She is. And along with a few others in our community.

I know.

I know.

Congratulations to her. Also, Spady Museum, Reverend Dawkins. There's a few other of our locals and Boynton Beach officials that are getting recognized. I just want to say congratulations in advance Thank you. Thank you. For that as the first thing. Another thing I wanted to bring up, I do have a couple slides, but there's something not on there wanted to mention. So at the end of the last meeting, there was a comment about a property that Sarah Selznick came in with many people for public comment about properties that we own near some of hers. So I commented that we were gonna have a conversation. She had offered properties to trade potentially with for our property.

So what I'd suggested, because we typically don't just trade properties necessarily, if we have something that we would like to go after to complete an assemblage, we've done that in that scenario, but it's not something that we typically do. So my thought was that maybe we could, if the board's interested in considering a revocable license, that's something where they could use the property to see if they can make what they're trying to do work. If you recall, they're trying to build some sort of outdoor space with a fruit farm, some food trucks or some kind of food aspect of it. Garden. Garden, yes, that they're trying to build. So we wanted to find out if that is something the board would like to consider at the next meeting. Just to see if you want to consider that subject, a revocable license for that space.

I would. I think so. I'll be in support of that.

Okay. Okay. So we'll do that.

Piece of property, though, to dedicate to a

It's it's RM, and there's actually two pieces of property next to the parcel that she owns that we were trying to purchase potentially that is for sale. So it's in the 1st Block Of Atlantic Avenue. So which is why we thought a roll call license would be an interesting option to see if they could use it for a temporary period of time to see how this thing works out. But we would still technically own the property.

Because we don't want to arrest the development for the rest of the street. That's the

the Right. Property that you're trying to buy, her property is in in between that?

Yes. Mhmm. Yes. So and again, I just thought if we could bring it up as a if your board is interested, I can bring a whole presentation and show you the entire corner. It's basically Northwest 6th And 5th. There's a little pocket that's forming there. So we can show you parcel by parcel what's going on to see if we want to consider this type of use. But it is RM, that is the use by code. Okay.

The zoning. Ms.

Would you rather meet with us individually to go through that? I mean

Ms. We can. Well, like Ms.

Do we want to do that? I mean, it's totally however you want to

do it. Ms.

Well, we have to bring the revocable license on the agenda anyway. If we wanted to meet separately, I can show you all in advance of it. And then

We won't have to see a presentation. I think my colleague's trying to avoid a presentation.

We're just trying to get you to have the record. That's fine.

But no. However

Yeah. I mean, can what we can do is bring the the subject of a revocable license onto the next agenda show the map and see if we want to consider that as an option for this parcel. And if we do, we'll go, you can give us direction to do the revocable license. It's a standard document. I believe we have, I'll have to see what the last one we've done. But we did one for a property on Northwest 5th Avenue a couple of years ago. So we have a standard document.

Okay.

All right.

Oh, and Black History Month, just wanted to recognize that. We're closing it out towards the end, and I already mentioned that our chair is getting recognized for something this month. So, congratulations. Next is we just issued a call to artists for a mural that will be on 95 SW 5th Avenue. This is the property that we're trying to attract a hopefully medical office. There's three great spaces in here that are ready to build. So for those listening out there, we are still looking for medical doctors type services to come into this building. So we have an open application on our website. But part of the design was to have a mural right in this block, right here. So yeah, we just issued the call to artists.

We had a meeting about it yesterday with the art community. We had quite a bit of interest in it. So we're really excited about this. And we're going to keep sharing the information. The intent is to have something with frogs and to pay homage to Frog Alley. So that's all incorporated. Whoever comes in has able to reflect that in their artwork. So we're excited about this. And next is our CRA Social, which is going to be on March 4 at the Edmunds Baines Building. So please come out, share information, of course, about projects and what we're doing.

We're trying to have a little bit of a focus on commercial businesses. I recently presented at a DDA board meeting, and one of the board members expressed interest in some of the businesses in his community, having questions about things that we're doing. So we'll see. We invited them all to come, so this might end up being more of a business community focus, which will be great. Otherwise, we still have all the information about our projects. We'll be showcasing the townhouses as well, with the commercial unit, with the new picture that our new painting, paint colors that we chose. Alright. And next, this is the William Hatcher's building. Harvey Insurance Solutions will be having a ribbon cutting ceremony on Wednesday, March 18. We just recently reached out to you all about this.

He's really excited. This has been very long time coming. As you know, Chris has been working in our community in different places, really working really hard, piling the ground to get his business up and running. And now he's in this great space with William Hatcher. So we're very, very excited for him. So this will be at the William Hatcher Building, 26 Northwest 6th Avenue from five to seven on March 18. And then the next thing is so we only had a March meeting schedule. We usually don't schedule meetings until after the organizational meeting. But we saw that there is our April meeting scheduled for city commission. So we wanted to schedule a board meeting for us on April 28.

I know there may be one conflict for meeting dates. So we just wanted to pose this and put that out there, that we're trying to schedule an April meeting. The tentative date is the twenty eighth, but we'll work with you all individually to confirm an alternative When

the March date?

March is the let me see. I think it's the twenty sixth. No. The twenty fourth.

Mr. Twenty fourth.

Yes. Which will have a lot on there, so we would like to make sure everyone is available for that meeting.

Mr.

Yeah. On the April 28?

Yes.

And then we'll schedule the rest of the meetings after the city schedules the commission meetings. On the work, yes, exactly. We have to kind of get our meetings. Typically they're the fourth Tuesday unless there's a commission meeting that's scheduled. All right. And that's all I have.

Thank you very much.

Well, thank you. And the board attorney?

I don't have any comments.

Okay. And commissioners?

Nothing. Thank you.

No further comments. Very excited about getting that $600 done. That's gonna be a great project. I really it's gonna be a I think it could be a model for some of the others that we're that we're trying to do.

Absolutely. Definitely.

And if the commission doesn't disappoint you with the ADU stuff, we'll actually get it done. And but I keep they're unreliable people, so I I can't

We have to lobby them really hard. We'll have to we'll work on them. Thank

you. I have a little comment, and thank you for the recognition. And if nothing else

Thank

Adjourn. Don't think