Village Council - Regular Meeting

Taking longer than I would have thought. Clear. All right. We now take you back to our regular scheduled programming.

All right. Moving on to the Village Council meeting. At this point, it's a time for the approval of the agenda. And staff recommends we approve the agenda with the following modifications and amendments. One is move public hearing item 8J, Ordinance No. Twenty twenty six-nine, establishing the Village Landing Community Development District to the public hearing item as eight F. Former items eight F, G and H will change respectively. Add item resolution number twenty twenty six-eleven, which is Palm Beach County Interlocal Service Boundary Agreement to the consent agenda as item seven H. Former items seven H, I and J will change respectively. Remove Item 8H, Ordinance No.

Twenty twenty five-twenty six, that is the 50th Street Comprehensive Plan Amendment from public hearing. And similarly, remove Item 8I, Ordinance No. Twenty twenty five dash 27, which is the 50th Street rezoning from public hearing. And with those modifications, we recommended approval of Ms. The

Barnes, we also would ask this is there's an amendment to the agreement with the Supervisor of Elections, and we would ask you to approve the amended form of the agreement that's been placed in your at your seats.

Okay. And that's on consent, right?

That is on consent.

Is there a motion to approve the agenda as extensively amended?

Motion to approve agenda. Second.

All in favor? Aye. Agenda is approved, five-zero. All right.

That brings us to presentations and proclamations. And one of our favorite times of year, we have PAC-one hundred twenty five coming before us this evening for the annual Pineapple Derby invitation. I would ask representatives of the PAC to come on up.

Come on down, guys and girls. Hi, Kim.

Hi. All

right. Thank you guys for allowing the PAC-one hundred twenty five to come here tonight. We are here to challenge you guys to this year's annual Pinewood Derby with the village of Wellington, the fire department, and PBSO. We want to see who will be this twenty twenty six year's hometown hero. Is it going to be the village winning again? Maybe the fire department will win for the first time? Maybe There

are years where the firefighters won for years and years in a row.

Yes, but then they had to make a new car every year. It slowed them down.

Well, you know, maybe this

year will be their year. I see they're definitely here to come accept their car also. So our race is going to be Sunday, March 8. Your check-in time is going to be at 12:45. Race time is gonna be at 01:00, and it's gonna be along the waterfront behind the community center. Great.

Do guys we're accept the challenge?

Of course, we accept the challenge.

All right.

And we plan to win it. We plan to win again. Okay. And we look forward to the event. You guys do a great job and appreciate all you guys do.

No. Thank you for everything you guys do for us. We greatly appreciate it. You ought to go get this. Thank

you.

Thank you, guys.

Someone from PPSO or Fire here want to PPSO claim a is on it. They

beat you out with a puppy. They brought a dog. They brought a dog.

It doesn't look like fire's here, but we will get fire their car.

If I risk you had to leave, I think, a little early.

Okay.

Something happened.

Okay. Thank

you. We'll get

them the car.

Thank you

guys so much.

See you guys in March.

Thanks so much.

Alright. We'll see you in March. Thank you. Alright,

mister Barnes. Alright. Next item is a presentation for bicycle friendly bronze award presentation. There's an award designation from the League of American Bicyclists. And mister Stillings is here to present the item.

Thank you. Since 2002, the the League of American Bicyclists, Bicycle Friendly America program has accepted over 2,300 applications from over 900 communities, and there are currently over 440 bicycle friendly communities awarded in all 50 states in the District Of Columbia. We made the cut while not every place has. It's a testament to the community, its dedication to seeing real change on the ground. It's advocates like you, the council, who supported building roads and paths where people could bike.

Today the organization leads the movement to create a bicycle friendly America for everyone, and we're proud to be a part of that with this this award. We do have I do have a award that we will put in the the case in the lobby, representing our bronze award. The Bicycle Friendly Community Program asks communities to evaluate the state of bicycling and work towards ways to improve quality of life, sustainability, and transportation options for more people. Through this award we've been able to benchmark our progress toward improving our bicycle friendliness and see how much more we can do. As Wellington residents know well, bicycling is about mobility, sustainability, health and so much more.

Bicycle friendly communities are great places to live, work, work from home and visit when possible. Applying for the bicycle friendly community designation is no small endeavor. It takes tremendous effort to gather all the information required and to bring all the right people to the table. The higher level awards often take years of planning process and policy. The awards go all the way to platinum.

The league was impressed with many aspects of Wellington's efforts to build a world class bicycle friendly community, including pushing the community that actively welcomes cycling of all kinds, an annual event with an intuitive hands on learning bicycle rodeo experience to encourage and promote safe cycling. We have a bike rack request program and a bike maintenance stations provided throughout the community. And of course the support from council staff and residents to create the Bicycle Friendliness in Wellington. With that, I present the certificate of the Bicycle Friendly Community Bronze Award to council. Also tonight we have Mr.

Zerita from Wheels of Wellington that I'd like to also recognize as a bicycle friendly business for all the support to bicyclists as well as our annual event. And if you'd like to come up, we have a certificate for his business as well.

Thank you.

Thank you and hi to everybody. First thing is I'll be in Wellington three years now, three and a half years and there's no wheels in Wellington anymore. It's cycle fit bicycles. We changed the name so it's okay. I appreciate that anyway. It's just a name. Same location. Same locations, yes, but it's a different name. But that's okay. I appreciate the think about us and we try to work really hard on the community to make it better, more friendly.

We have rides every Saturday and Thursday nights from the shop and we organize rides to the community to enjoin us. Sometimes more road riders, mountain bikes and gravel bike they call now, so you can go off road and ride. We try to give support to everybody to recognize and push more the bicycle friendly community because I think Wellington is a great area to ride. I've been West Palm for almost thirty years, and I'm here in Wellington just three years ago, and I love the area. I think the community is great, And we have to be here. So thank you very much for this.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

Let me fix that one. Okay. Let's go. And just to give you an idea, so in Florida there are only 22 communities that are designated. There are, of those communities, only Let's see, two, four, six, eight, 10. Eight are silver, two are gold, the rest are bronze. And so we find ourselves among the bronze. Those that are silver and gold have had those designations for a number of years and have built from bronze up as they progress. And so we hope to do the same, and we look forward to being able to do that to make Wellington an even better biking community.

Thank you, Mr. Stillings and your team. I know I've been pushing you and Mr. Rineville for this for some time to get this designation, and I'm glad we finally got it. And it's nice to know that we're at bronze, which means we have still something to shoot for, which we're going keep shooting for. So thank you. You. Thank your efforts. Back to you, Jim.

All right. That brings us to approval of the consent agenda. And as you note, there are modifications to consent agenda, including the change that Ms. Cohen presented to Resolution twenty twenty six-six. With those changes, we recommend approval of the consent agenda. Is there a motion? Move to approve.

Second. Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Consent agenda is approved, five zero. Brings us

to our public hearing items. First item is Ordinance number twenty twenty six dash zero one, Water Supply Facilities ten year work plan and related update of Wellington's comprehensive plan. Mr. Stillings and his team are here for this item.

Ordinance number twenty twenty six dash zero one, an ordinance of Wellington Florida's council adopting Wellington's water supply facilities ten year work plan and amending Wellington's comprehensive plan to incorporate the work plan by reference within the public facilities element and capital improvement element as required by Florida statutes, providing a conflicts clause, providing a severability clause, and providing an effective date.

Good evening. Who's Katie

I'd off the like to just take a minute and introduce you to Katie DeCosmo. And she's a planner here, and she's going to be presenting tonight. And also wanted to just give you a brief notice that you should have something in your folders where we had inadvertently put the South Florida plan in. So that's the plan that's supposed to be attached to it. So if you have any questions. Yes.

Great. Take it away. Good evening. My name is Katie DeCosmo from the Planning and Zoning Department. Before you tonight is ordinance twenty twenty six dash zero one to adopt Wellington's water supply facilities ten year work plan. At this time, I would like to enter the file into the record for tonight's meeting.

There you go.

Maybe it's on the other tape.

There we go. One more time. Thank

you. There we go. Perfect. Sorry about that.

The Village of Wellington is requesting the adoption of the water supply facilities ten year work plan. Additionally, we are requesting to amend Wellington's comprehensive plan to incorporate the work plan by reference and amend all references to the plan. The amended comprehensive plan elements include the public facilities element and the capital improvement element. Florida statutes require local governments to prepare a ten year water supply facilities work plan and incorporate the work plan into the village's comprehensive plan to address water supply within eighteen months of the regional water supply plan's adoption by the regional water management district. The South Florida Water Management District adopted the Lower East Coast Water Supply Plan on 09/12/2024.

The plan update is consistent with the water supply planning requirements of Florida Statutes Chapter three seventy three. This plan presents population and water demand projections through 2045, a review of water supply issues and evaluations and a list of water source options. It also examines local and regional water supply efforts and describes water resource and water supply development projects completed since the 2020 update. Overall, the recommendation is approval of ordinance number twenty twenty six dash zero one. Additionally, the recommendation is the incorporation by reference of the work plan into the comprehensive plan and modifying the text for references of the public facilities and capital improvement elements to be consistent with the work plan.

This item was brought before the Planning, Zoning and Adjustment Board on 01/21/2026, and approval was recommended seven to zero. Thank you.

Thank you. Appreciate that. This is a public hearing item, so we need a motion to open public hearing. So moved.

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now open. Madam Vice Mayor, do we have cards on this item?

Not on this item.

Does anyone here wish to speak on this item? Seeing none, is there a motion to close public hearing? Move to close.

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now closed. Do we have any questions for staff on this? I mean, is something we do pursuant to statutes update, and this is the work plan we've been working towards continuously to modernize and improve our our water utility systems. This just updates the the various documents and comp plan to show what we're actually doing and what we plan to do. So it's not really substantive because it's already being done. It's just updating our documents. Any questions? Thoughts? Ideas? Comments? How about emotional? Well, I

think it should be noted that, again, much like many things we do, there's lots and lots of effort by Ms. Pants and the planning team, your office and great job tonight to bring something like this document to fruition for all of us. We have been working pursuant to a plan to invest in the water utility from all through Ms. Larocque's tenure, all through your tenure, And things are happening progressively. We're moving to RO.

We're phasing out the the Lyme field. We're working on all of those kinds of things. And and nothing happens in the village that isn't planned and meticulous, particularly when it calls for, number one, the public safety, and number two, the amount of money that we're talking about here. There's some thought that we don't budget in the village. There's some thought that we don't have an annual audit each and every year. We are required to have those things. Those things are absolutely required by law of this municipality. But we go above and beyond. I would love anyone to read this. This is a very comprehensive, albeit boring, document that says I know.

And she knows, I think, the world of her. But the fact is that water is element one of the public safety. So with that, great job. Thank And I'll move to approve ordinance twenty twenty six dash zero one.

Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Hearing no opposed, passes five zero. Thank you very much. Thank you. Keep at it. Nice presentation. Thank you. Mr. Barnes, we have a number of items You do, are

related, I'll go through them and then Ms. Hall will read the ordinance by title on the applicable ones. Next item is Ordinance No. 2020 Six-six Wellington Village, formerly known as Cape Park Rezoning. And together with that, we'll have 2020 Six-three Wellington Village, formerly known as Cape Park Master Plan, together with 2026 Dash 04 Wellington Village, formerly as Skate Park, conditional use for pod a school. And lastly, 2026 Dash 05 Wellington Village, formerly known as Skate Park, conditional use for pod b hotel.

Ordinance number twenty twenty six dash zero six, an ordinance of Wellington, Florida's council approving a rezoning by amending the zoning designation for a portion of certain property, formerly known as K Park, from community facilities to multiple use plan development totaling approximately 65.98 acres, more or less, for a portion of certain property, formerly known as K Park, from community commercial to MUPD totaling approximately 5.3 acres more or less for a grand total of 71.27 acres, providing a conflicts clause, providing a severability clause, and providing an effective date. Resolution number 2026Dash03, a resolution of Wellington Florida's council approving a master plan for the Wellington Village multiple use plan development for certain property known as K Park totaling approximately 71.27 acres, more or less, located on the Southwest Corner of Stribling Way and US 441 State Road 7, as more specifically described herein. To adopt the Wellington Village MUPD Master Plan, to designate a 43.76 acre institutional pod with a maximum of seventeen fifty students and 405,000 square feet, to designate a 24.05 acre commercial pod with a maximum of 210 square feet of retail, 105,000 square feet of restaurant plus 20,000 square feet outdoor dining, 75,000 square feet of office, 180 room hotel with a maximum of 175,000 square feet, and two fifteen multifamily dwelling units to designate a 3.23 acre open space pod with a lake and public use lake trail, to designate a 0.23 acre utility municipal pod with a lift station, to add three access points on Stribling Way, to add one access point on US 441 State Road 7, to add three cross access points to the Life Church property, to add one future cross access point to Farmington Estates, to add one future cross access point to Family Vision, to adopt the Wellington Village MUPD project standards manual, providing a conflicts clause, providing a severability clause, and providing an effective date.

Resolution number R2026Dash04, a resolution of Wellington Florida's council approving a conditional use for certain property, formerly known as K Park, totaling approximately 71.27 acres, more or less, located on the Southwest corner of Stribling Way and US 441 State Road 7, as more specifically described herein, to allow a 1,750 student private school with outdoor recreational facilities within pod a of the Wellington Village MUPD, providing a conflicts clause, providing a severability clause, and providing an effective date. Resolution number R2026Dash05, a resolution of Wellington Florida's council approving a conditional use for certain property, formerly known as K Park, totaling approximately 71.27 acres, more or less, located on the Southwest corner of Stribling Way and US 441 State Road 7, as more specifically described herein, to allow a 180 room hotel within pod b of Wellington Village MUPD, providing a conflicts clause, providing a severability clause, and providing an effective date.

Mayor, this is quasi judicial. So we'll go ahead and swear the witnesses. If you intend to be heard on this matter, raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?

Yes. K.

And ex parte disclosures, please.

We'll start with Councilwoman Silvestri.

Okay. Staff, the entire team, let's see, all the candidates, most of planning and zoning, my husband, my children. And I can be fair and impartial.

Can you just generally summarize the substance of those communities?

The project and how it affects Wellington. Thank you.

I spoke to staff, the applicant, Jeff Robert on PZAB, Rachel Edelman. And I think that's it since the last time. So I can be fair and impartial. Discussion was just about the progress of the project and the impact it would have on Wellington and surrounding areas.

Thank you.

And this is second reading for the rezoning. I don't think I've spoken with anyone since first reading. So I can be fair and partial. Okay.

For me, on the rezoning, I think I spoke to Mr. Tuma, to Mr. Kelly, and to staff just regarding the project and the finer points of it. And I don't think I've spoken to anyone else since first reading. And I can be fair and impartial.

Since the first reading, I've spoken to staff, UNIDENTIFIED and I can be fair and impartial in discussion was what we're going through tonight. Okay.

And one more question. Is the applicant combining all of the public hearings into one? Thank you.

Evening. Kelly Ferriolo, Planning and Zoning. Before you tonight is the rezoning, petition number twenty twenty five-three REZ master plan, Petition twenty twenty five-one MP and two conditional uses, Petition twenty twenty five-one and two CU for the Wellington Village, also known as K Park, for which I would like to enter all files into the record. Throughout this presentation and the staff report, K Park and Wellington Village is used synonymously. The applicants, Wellington Property Owner LLC and Founders Acreage Wellington LLC, are requesting to develop a mixed use project with commercial office, school hotel, and multifamily uses on the K Park property located on the Southwest corner of Stribling Way and State Road 7.

The agent Urban Design Studios and their team are here to make their presentation first, and staff will make a follow-up presentation after.

Thank you. Mr. Tumma, are you kicking it off? Yes, sir. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you. By the way.

Thank you. Good evening again. Ken Tum with Urban Design. My address is 610 Klamada Street, West Palm Beach, and I've been sworn in. Thank you for having me here this evening. We'll not be requesting any additional time this time. Our team is here to answer questions you may have. I have about three or four slides. But most importantly, you put us on a mission last time, and that mission was to work with Oakmont. And last week, we did have the opportunity to meet with them on Thursday evening in a very collaborative way.

And I will show you a letter of support that we have received from them. So just a couple of slides, and then I'm going to request that the information that we provided last time be just part of the record. And that way, we can move forward fairly quickly this evening. So the development team is here. I walked through this in detail last time, but the entire team is here to answer any questions you may have, including Mr.

Ryan from Related and Mr. Clark from the school. The request that is in front of you as was read into the record include both the master plan, the rezoning, the conditional use for pod b, and the conditional use for pod a, which is a school. We did receive your recommendation last time and also the Planning and Zoning Board recommendation for the rezoning and the Planning and Zoning and Appeal Board recommendation for the conditional use and master plan. The subject site, you're very familiar with the location of the site.

We are as you mentioned last time, we continue to work with our neighbors on Oakmont Estates and to the west. And this is the zoning request in second reading that is in front of you. The request is to rezone the subject site to an MUPD, identified on the screen in pink. This is the master plan that you saw last time. Nothing has changed since that time.

The same plan is in the record, is 71.27 acres. The items also being approved this evening are the project standards manual and the development order and the conditions of approval associated with that. This is our conceptual site plan that you reviewed last time. And most importantly, here's the item that you sent us on a mission to do. We have received support from Oakmont.

I'd like to identify on the screen, highlighted in green, that Mr. Ryan and the school did an excellent job, including Mr. Clark and the school representatives. We write to express our support for the proposed school and mixed use development plan for K Park site adjacent to our neighborhood. And we specifically want to note our support for the school's proposed perimeter wall located along the western property line of K Park site abutting our neighborhood.

It will be consisted of an it will consist of an elevated level three foot berm and a seven foot wall. Ladies and gentlemen, we have gathered their support. I'm happy to go through the other 147 slides, but I would prefer to do that on rebuttal if necessary. And happy to answer any questions that you have. Our whole team is assembled here this evening. Thank you.

Staff report next for public comment.

Okay. Like previously mentioned, the applicant is requesting a rezoning of the property from community facilities and community commercial to multiple use plan development or MUPD. This slide shows the current zoning map on the left and the proposed zoning map on the right with K Park bubbled in yellow. The master plan request is to create the 71.27 acre K Park MUPD, which includes pod A, the institutional pod, which is 43.76 acres. It is a school and includes a maximum of seventeen fifty students, and the school is one of the conditional use requests tonight.

Pod B is the commercial pod, which is 24.05 acres and has a total of 410,000 square feet of retail restaurant and office uses. It proposes 180 room hotel, which is also one of the conditional use requests and two fifteen units of multifamily broken up into two phases. It approves Pod 0, which is designated as open space and a municipal POD designated for utilities. The master plan adds three access points along Stribling and one access point along State Road 7, three access points to the Life Church property and one cross access point to the Farmington Estates and Family Vision for potential future cross access. It adopts the K Park MUD Project Standards Manual and establishes conditions of approval for the development.

The proposed master plan meets the requirements of MUPD Section six fifty six, including minimum acreage, number of uses and the floor area ratio. It also meets building placement requirements, incorporates a main street, provides for community benefits and more. The bottom table provides a breakdown of all pods, which shows that no use is larger than 60% of the total acreages of the MUPD. The developer is requesting two fifteen multifamily units with a density of three units per acre broken up into two phases. Phase one is 15 units and Phase two is two ten units.

The request is well below the maximum allowed density of 22 units per acre. Based off the proposed residential units, the developer is required to dedicate point six acres for public civic land and three acres for public parks and rec use, which they can either dedicate the land or make a payment in lieu of dedication and can be paid on a per unit basis. They also have to dedicate a minimum of 1.3 acres for private parks and rec land and make a payment of $94,000 to the school district, which is in addition to any impact fees they are assessed at building permit. A project standards manual has also been submitted as required by the LDR and is adopted by resolution. PUDs are to allow flexibility in the application of zoning regulations, and the developer has requested various flexible regulations, including reduced vehicular and bike parking, reduced parking stall and aisle width, reduced quantity and dimensions of loading spaces modifications to width and landscape buffer requirements and foundation planting, which staff has no objection to.

They are also requesting a reduction of required internal lot trees. A condition of approval has been added to the master plan, which will require an in loop payment of $600 per tree up to $210,000 for any internal lot tree that is not planted. Various improvements and contributions conditions were included in the master plan resolution. The developer will be required to make proportionate share payments for various intersections throughout the village, including 47.6% to construct an additional westbound left turn lane at Forest Hill And State Road 7 and 40.8% to construct additional northbound lanes at Stribling and Fairlane Farms Roundabout. They will also be required to construct and fund various traffic improvements, including a signalized intersection or roundabout and various turn lanes on Stribling and signalized intersection on State Road 7 at Life Church entrance.

The developer will also be required to pay $75 per linear foot of frontage along State Road 7 for plantings and maintenance of the median and swale and $75 per linear foot of frontage for a boardwalk or construct an eight foot sidewalk. And they will need to construct and fund upgrades to lift stations and various other utility facilities. A shared parking study was reviewed and analyzed, which determined the maximum demand for the project was nine fifty four parking spaces. Two contingency parking plans were provided, which include a shared parking agreement with Wind Grove Academy and the construction of parking garages within Pod B if needed in the future. Conditions of approval include annual monitoring for a period of ten years to determine if additional mitigation will be needed in the future.

And a shared parking agreement with Life Church will also be required to be submitted. A school traffic operational management plan for Pod A has been reviewed and will also be included as Exhibit C of the conditional use resolution for the school. The plan requires staggered start and end times and provides a comprehensive traffic control plan for each grade level and mode of transportation. At the January 21 PZAB meeting, the Board unanimously recommended approval of all requests with the following recommendations and suggestions. For the Kate Park MUPD Master Plan, streetscape materials should be clarified and added to the PSM.

Discussion with Castellina POA regarding the proposed roundabout at the Castellina And Pod A intersection needed to be finalized. And provide enhanced standards and illustration within the PSM for the parking garage within Pod A. And for the hotel conditional use, advocate for a soft branded hotel. Since the first reading, staff has been working with the agent on various updates to the conditions of approval and to the PSM. Staff has finalized conditions of approval, and this just shows the updates to each of the conditions that we provided that have been updated in the resolution.

Condition five establishes a monetary in lieu payment for civic and park dedication and allows for a per unit payment in case it's phased. Condition nine provides detailed requirements for dust control during construction, which is the same language as in access to resolution. Condition 10 requires the developer to process and obtain approval of a site plan amendment for Life Church and execute a shared parking and cross access agreement. Condition 27 establishes a monetary payment for tree shortage not to exceed $210,000 based on a three fifty tree shortfall. Conditions 30 requires the State Road 7 median and swale be landscaped, hardscaped and maintained by the developer and execute a maintenance agreement or pay $75 per linear foot of frontage.

And Condition 31 requires payment of $75 per linear foot of frontage for a boardwalk or construct and fund an eight foot wide sidewalk. And Condition 39 requires parking deficiency by either constructing a garage or other methods such as operational changes. The PSM also was updated to incorporate streetscape materials as requested by PZAB and to update the civic park dedication to reflect updates to the conditions. And the developer has been working with the neighboring property owners finalize discussions regarding the wall and the roundabout. Based off the analysis provided in the staff report, staff has determined that the request meets the criteria of the comprehensive plan and land development regulations and comply with the requirements for rezoning master plan and conditional use.

Condition of approval are provided for in Resolution R twenty twenty six-three, R twenty twenty six zero four, and r twenty twenty six dash zero five. And this concludes staff's presentation.

Mister mayor, one one correction. Miss Ferriola said phase two included 210 residential units. It was it's 200 residential units.

Just Right. Is there a timing on phase two? A planned timing on

phase No, there's not.

Madam Weissberg, we have cards.

We have one card on this item.

Why don't we go ahead and let's open public hearing, if you want to have

So moved.

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Public hearing is now open.

JAMES We have Audeen Donaldson.

JAMES Mr. Mayor, while the public So comes up, one conditions thirty seven and thirty eight, because of the added conditions, those references need to be updated. In those two conditions, the reference numbers need to be adjusted so we can address those either as part of your motion or now.

MR. Say that again.

What page are we on, Mr. Sillings?

MR. Five fifty one. MR.

Page five fifty one, conditions thirty seven and thirty eight, reference numbers to the other conditions. In '37, it should be conditions 35.

Oh, because we added new conditions, those numbers those internal numbers changed. Yes, sir. Okay.

So it should be 35 and 36. And then 30 condition number 38, it would be 33A and 34. 34F.

Okay.

May I begin?

Thank you.

Good evening.

Good evening. I am Doctor. Adjane Donaldson, and I've lived in Wellington for twenty two years. But today I thought about it. I've been in this area for thirty two years. I've lived West Of The Turnpike for ten years and then moved into Wellington twenty two years ago. And I learned of this project, and I'm very much in support of this project. And when I thought about it today, I thought that a community is not only a collection of homes. It is a living, breathing entity built on the strength of the community. We want to turn what we consider ordinary into an extra ordinary neighborhood, and that's Wellington.

It's not just a common place, but it's a great place to be. I've enjoyed living in Wellington. I've enjoyed the developments in Wellington and the scenery in Wellington, and even the opportunities for the kids it's this direction, right? The playground. So I am in great support for this project.

So I do support the project. I would commend to the developers that the intent is not just to build structures, but to build usable structures that people in the community can benefit from. I believe as a community we thrive on the innate things that allows us to grow stronger and be more beautiful. I support the development of this mixed use project where as a community we have shared spaces, one in which we feel the sense of belonging. This, I believe, will increase household incomes, jobs will be available, increase property volume, and offer residents exclusive environment where security, convenience, and top tier amenities are accessible.

So gentlemen, you do have my support.

Thank you, Ms. Donaldson. Vice Mayor, any more cards?

Any more cards?

Is there a motion to close public hearing? So moved.

Second.

Where do we stand with Castellina and the roundabout?

Good evening. Kevin Ryan, related Ross, Executive VP. Need my address too still? 2051 Bluewater Terrace South in Pompano Beach, Florida. So we, since the last council meeting, we did have an extensive meeting with not just the board members, but an entire resident group. I think there was about 50 people attending in person and many that were attending by Zoom. And we went through the entire situation of not just the roundabout, but also the school access plans and our project in general. And we've been working with the board president. So the result has been that they're very favorable towards the roundabout. They would like to see that take place.

And that's been communicated to us. It does require a twothree vote because there's a small 6,000 square foot component of their HOA land that needs to be taken to build the roundabout. So they're in the process of getting that vote approved. But I've been assured that that's an extremely likely outcome.

Okay. That's good, because that's going to really improve traffic flow and speeds on that road, which is much needed. While we're talking about the roads, I know we went over traffic extensively last time. But since Mr. Kelly's here, maybe we can do the briefer update from last time just so people who didn't hear the first hearing can

hear the first we and see what's left.

Do that MR. Sure, keep capping at the mic.

MR. Before we do that, if Castellina doesn't get to that twothree, what's the plan?

We would revert to what is currently in our existing plans, which is a school signalized light. So it's a traffic light, but only it's serving the school. So it's sort of blinking yellow lights that go during certain periods. That's what

Sort of what we have at Bankstown?

It's a Bankstown signal like you have at Wellington High School. Okay.

Yeah. So that so only with Castellina's affirmative vote at twothree can we get the roundabout?

I believe that's the case, yes.

Mr. Kelly, walk through the traffic situation, the current situation, how we're resolving that and how you're going to resolve the increased traffic that this project is going to bring. And don't forget to mention the extensive stacking that's provided for the school so it's not going to back up on the scribbling or four forty one.

Let's talk about all the stacking. Right.

All of it.

Okay. I'll do my best to for the record, Brian Kelly, Vice President Traffic Engineer with Simmons and White. I'll try to do this in a more condensed manner than I did last time, but I'll go over the high level improvements. So as part of this project, related Ross and the school are constructing substantial improvements both on Stribling Way and Stribling Way at State Road 7. So those improvements to mitigate an intersection that's currently what's considered a failing intersection, that doesn't meet level of service requirements.

So we are proposing substantial, or kind of major turn lane improvements that will bring it up to level of service standards that meet village requirements. Those improvements are a second northbound left turn lane on State Road 7 as you're approaching Stribling. When you're on Stribling, going to the eastbound direction map

from last

Yeah, let's see if I can pull that up.

Yeah, I think the visual's gonna help

Yeah, think

that's I understand what you're talking about.

Here's our slide. Okay. This is the helpful one here. So looking at number what you can see there is number four. This is the Stribling And State Road 7 intersection.

We're adding a second northbound left turn lane, we are adding a second eastbound left turn lane, and adding a second eastbound right turn lane. So those are three new lanes, new improvements on that road. There'll still be an existing eastbound through, I think that was a question before on the map, we're really just showing what are the new turn lane improvements. We will also be extending the southbound right turn lane. And the important thing to mention as part of this, these are improvements that have to be done before this site is opened.

So this isn't some theoretical improvement in ten years. This is an improvement that is done before the site opens, before that first CO. So that's that's very important. I think we talked about the roundabout already. I think the important another important aspect of it is essentially from that roundabout all the way to the intersection of State Road 7, Stribling will be widened as well, so there'll be new turn lanes, and that'll actually be a four lane section plus turn lanes, as applicable on Stribling Way.

So these are millions of dollars worth of improvements that will be constructed as part of this project, and are going to mitigate not only the related and school traffic, but really existing issues that are out there today. So that's obviously very critical. I think the other important part of this that we want to talk about is the school circulation. I'm going to switch to, I think, another slide here. Let's kind of go to the yeah, this kind of has everything here.

But from the school perspective, what we will be doing is essentially bringing in almost all the grades from State Road 7. So the reason we're doing that is to take advantage of the extensive internal stacking and queuing capacity that we have from our distance essentially from State Road 7. So just again, provided some comparisons previously, where like Binks Forest and Wellington High School were about eight seventy five feet or 900 feet of stacking capacity that haven't dropped off. Because of that, because it's insufficient, they back out onto the road. That's not going to be the case here.

We have well over a mile of stacking, depending on how we measure it, because we actually have two lanes we can use, so we can get well over a mile of stacking. It will also be staggering the start and end time, so it's not all seventeen fifty students arriving at one time. That helps kind of disperse the traffic impact, so it's not all at that one particular peak time. One of the advantages, too, because of the unique, let's call it uses that we have on the site between the Life Church, between the mixed use and the school, each of those really have different peaks. So that really works to our advantage.

The school peak is during the weekday in the mornings, and then early afternoon. Your, the mixed use, the restaurant retail site will be certainly busier on Saturday, and the Life Church will be busier on Sunday, and then also I think Wednesday evening as well. They have a service there, too. So I can go through it in more detail, but that's kind of the Reader's Digest version of it, and I'm happy to answer any more questions.

Anyone have questions for Mr. Kelly? I just wanted to just so people knew what we were talking about, because not everyone watches every meeting. It's hard to believe,

but it's true.

I asked this last time, but I just want to get the answer. I know you're working on the staggered start. Have you looked at that more? Is that something you're going to do over time?

It's something that will be done over time. It's something we have discussed internally, and it's just something that hasn't been finalized yet.

I do have a question, but it's got to do with the conditions. And it might be premature question. I'm not sure if Ms. Cohen, Mr. Barnes

There's no premature questions. You're up. Ask whatever

you want.

Go ahead.

Well, it's regarding the conditions. What is the timeframe on satisfying those conditions? Or will they be satisfied as the construction starts to move?

I will start with that. I guess there's a lot of conditions in there, but specifically the roadway improvements. So the roadway improvements have to be done prior to CO. So the intent is to open the site in 2028, I want to say October 2028, for the mixed use site, the school maybe a few months earlier. So the improvements would be done by then. They're required to be done for this site to open. We have Langen Engineering, who's doing all the off-site improvements. They've already started on all these plans. They've got to go through permitting, getting approvals for that, and then it will go under construction. But the intent and the idea is that those would be satisfied prior to opening, which tentatively is October 2028.

Questions?

Yes. I wanted to go back to the shared parking. I know we all had our concerns, and just confirm that that's for valet only? Or what did we what was the final discussion on the shared parking, and what that would look like, since it's on the school property?

So there's two shared parking opportunities. The primary one is really with Life Church. And that is specifically, we're in negotiation with documenting that agreement. And by the way, they're being a great partner in terms of working with us on all the things that are happening on their property. That is specifically going to be for valet parking storage only. The school option, which again is only a phasing option because ultimately there's sports fields there, but in the yellow zone that you see here, that could be a temporary parking. That one might be a self park or a valet. We still have to finish

And that would

be self park on the weekends?

Well, would certainly be during hours when the school would not be using it. Okay. Because the different patterns, of course, is, you know, weekdays, Monday, Friday during school hours it would be used, or on weekends, or evenings when they're having sporting events, for example. Okay. So it would be set up so that we would not be using it when the school use was used.

So no impact on school safety at all whatsoever?

No, there would

be mechanisms by which we could segregate it.

Okay. Thank you.

While we're on parking, I like the new condition 39 that requires the monitoring and determination whether or not there's insufficient parking on-site to manage the traffic, that it requires them to build a parking garage, right? That's what that Condition 39 does. And you'd have to build that within eighteen months of us triggering that condition. And to be clear, the there's currently no plan for parking garage now, right? It's all surface parking?

Correct.

And the 200 dwelling units that are part of Phase two, those would only occur when you built parking garages because those were all intended to upper level. So there's no the only residential units coming with Phase I are the 15 units that are going to be above some of the retail or commercial spaces, right? There's

no Correct.

By the time you get to the 200 units, it will be after you decided to build those units and the parking garages that will be needed to support the additional DAY: traffic and parking.

That's correct. How CHRISTINE

many levels would that garage need to be?

Great question. We actually haven't gotten that far in our design yet, but it'll be at least two, probably three stories.

In the event this is probably for staff. In the event that they do want to do the parking garage, does that come back to us for approval? Who who approves the aesthetic of the parking garage?

All structures within the pods will have to go to ARB for approval. So they'll have to get a site plan through planning and zoning. And then prior to building permit, they'd have to get approval from the architectural review board.

And they would only come back to counsel if they exceeded 35 feet in height.

Okay. Will commercial and the residential units have assigned parking? Or is that going to be open parking to

It would be open parking.

To every commercial, residential?

Yes. Yes. You mean the existing 15 units?

Existing 15, correct. I think when if they did the additional 200 units, that may be a different story. But that would be evaluated at that time.

I have more questions, but I don't want to keep asking them if someone has other questions. But I will. Have a question for staff. On the conditional use for Hang on a second. Resolution twenty twenty six is for the conditional use for the school. My question is, can that be changed without coming back to counsel? Meaning, they wanted if right now we're approving the school and if for some reason they decide not to do a school, can anything else happen on that site without it coming back to us to change that?

They'd have to update the master plan.

And that would come back to counsel? Correct. Okay. That's what I wanted to be clear on.

Go through that. If the school didn't happen, how would that procedurally work? And I don't know if that's Ms. Cohen, Mr. Barnes.

So it's very similar to what LOTUS is going through with the removal of the pop stroke. That was a conditional use for an outdoor entertainment, a conditional use for a school. It's shown on the pod within the master plan. And so it would come to us as an application DELL: for an

amendment to the master plan. And an elimination of the conditional use, it would go to planning board and then counsel for final approval.

And Ms. Cohen, there's purchase and sale contract terms applicable to this too as well, are there not?

Yes. We have a purchase and sale agreement with both the school and with related Roths.

That come into play in both circumstances?

Yes. Each of them have different provisions that govern the sale of the property.

But for example, if the school didn't go forward related, Ross has a right They

have a right to purchase the remaining under the existing agreement.

And that's all none of this changes that?

No. This doesn't change the PSA terms. This is the zoning and the master planning and the site planning.

While we're on the school, I don't have to jump the gun if we're still talking more about the other part of the project, but I just want to finalize the amount of Wellington residents' scholarships that we are getting promised and what the percentages are and what that looks like. So that can be a later question or that can be now.

If there's someone from the school here that can answer that, if that's been finalized yet. I know we discussed that previously.

I mean, does that have to be a condition here? Doesn't that have to be a term here?

So we

have to

get it done?

I mean, yeah, unless it's memorialized in the conditional use, it would just be a promise from the podium.

Unless it's in the purchase and sale agreement.

It's not in the purchase and

sale agreement.

Mean I

I would recommend that if that's a desire of counsel that we would make it a condition of approval, then we've got a monitoring method to do that as opposed to the purchase and sale agreement that sunsets when it closes.

Yeah. Because that was a material condition of of this deal that we were gonna make sure that a certain number of Millington residents got scholarships to the school. That number had been not set in stone yet, but I think we're about to put it in something close to stone. Hopefully, you have authority and clarity.

Yes. Jeff Clark, ElevateEd, Executive Chair and CEO for the school project. It's my understanding what was talked about previously is that we would aim to have a total of 100 scholarships available for Wellington students. Believe that's what the discussion was.

And what do those scholarships look like? Are they some full, some partial? What are we looking for?

Yeah. All scholarships to the school would be based upon demonstrated financial need. So what we would do is give priority to students that live within the village for the financial aid program. I think we discussed before we'll have three funding mechanisms as our plan for financial aid. First through our regular tuition receipts would help fund financial aid as well as an annual fund for specifically for scholarships and financial aid.

Second, our current plan is to participate in Step Up for Kids program. So that would also be providing some funding for students. And last is there's a new provision of federal program which we're hoping to work with the state of Florida on in order to provide scholarship granting organizations. So we want to make sure that it's accessible for the school, for the community, and all students across the all students across the area.

So you said a 100, but you didn't say a 100 Wellington residents. Just a 100.

No, no. Specific 100 designated for Wellington to give them priority until all those scholarships are used based on the demonstrated financial need.

I don't want to interrupt, Mrs. Silvestri.

I mean, I don't quite know if those are what we had originally asked for.

So Someone may have better recollection since I joined the project in September.

I'm going to see if I can dovetail off the Silvestri's set of questions for just a moment while we try to get to the bottom of this. Sure. GREGORY Capacity the school

well, each level will vary. But the capacity of the school when we initially open will be around 800 students because we'll offer grades pre K two through ninth grade, and then we'll matriculate students up through tenth, eleventh and twelfth grade. The initial build of the school will be for pre K through twelfth grade. So all those classrooms will be built initially. And that will be for a capacity of around 1,000 students.

1,000 students.

Future capacity?

Day one, the first day we opened, when we opened in September 2028, it would be 1,000 seats of 1,000 students built, approximately 1,008 to be exact, think, the current plan. And then we have future capacity to expand to seventeen fifty.

Then what is the 800 number you just gave me?

800 is because we would not be offering grades ten, eleven, 12.

Because you're gonna start at the high school in ninth grade.

Correct.

And we're and that that first ninth grade class will be the first graduating class.

That's correct.

Yes. Okay.

Yep. So Mr. Clark, you may want to go work the phones for the next few minutes. But I think the question here is as follows. Because this is going to as the mayor said, we're getting very close to stone.

Yes. So

I think you need three numbers. The number of scholarships out of that 800, the number out of the 1,008, and the number out of the seventeen fifty, right? Because it's not 100 if we get to the seventeen fifty.

Yeah. Typically, what I can tell you is that we would plan like any top tier independent school, about 15% of students would be receiving financial aid. As I discussed, some of that would be all based on demonstrated financial needs. So it may be full scholarship or partial scholarship depending upon affordability. Yes.

But Mr. Clark, we're going to need that in words and terms that we can write down. MR.

Yes.

So that all was a lot of maybe. And we're going to need now a lot of exact.

So what I can say exact is that we will we can commit to what I understand was committed to before is that there will be 100 scholarships prioritized for village of Wellington students.

But that doesn't answer Mrs. Silvesque's question or mine, which is 100 at a quarter, 100 at full, 100 what?

Is it

100 every year? Is it 100 at one time? Mean, that's I think the before you try to answer, I think the challenge we're having is we want to make sure that we know what you're offering and what our residents And are I think it's important to have as much clarity as we can of that because we have to write it down and then agree to it. So I don't want to just make it up on the fly while we're standing here because that makes for bad results. It could be challenging,

yes.

MR. Right. I'd rather if you had the ability to go back and talk to someone and come back with some real actual numbers as to what the plan is. Sure. And this is this would go in the resolution or where would this go?

Yeah. We put in the conditional use resolution.

Okay. Which is the that's

Conditional number seven.

Right. So

Yeah. Can we could you

just give us five minutes? I

just wanna

Quick little caucus for Go for it.

That's fine. Yeah. I think we take that.

We'll we'll do we're just gonna take a recess for five minutes?

Let's take

a five minute break. I'm use

the restroom or whatever we have to do in the meantime. I don't know if you guys had a chance to talk about this issue, but what what I think would make the most sense and the most clarity is if for tonight, we pull resolution twenty twenty six dash four and bring it back to the next meeting. So that way, we have time to actually put down concrete terms and work it through without trying to draft it while we're, you know, don't build the plane while we're flying it. Do you guys have any opposition to pulling that one item and moving on with the others?

No. We do not have any opposition of postponing the conditional use for the school.

Okay. Perfect. That solves that problem for tonight. Is that good for you, Councilwoman Sylvesteri?

That is.

Perfect. Alright. Any other questions on the series of items for the related school

So are you postponing it to a date certain?

Yes, to the next meeting. The twenty fourth or whatever

it is.

That's correct.

Thank you.

Okay. Do we need a motion on that officially?

Yes, you would need to move to postpone that item.

Okay, so we'll just move that when we get there.

Right. When you get to it, you'll you'll move to postpone.

Okay. Any other questions on other parts of the resolutions or the ordinance?

Mister Sillings, do we have a condition or do we need to write a condition as to the agreement with the Oakmont folks in regards to the three foot berm and the seven foot wall and that kind of thing. Does that need to be a condition? How is that getting done?

I would recommend, as part of your motion, that you just state that the project standards manual would need to be updated to include that buffer standard.

Mr. Tummo, what do you want it to be how do you want us to do it?

I'm just

in the mic.

Well, what

do we do we didn't hear him.

I apologize. I was running as soon as I could.

The PSM currently doesn't include the buffer with the wall, the seven foot wall in the PSM. That's what would need to be adjusted.

It shows a six foot wall. We submitted a seven foot wall as part of the actual site plan itself, but that's correct. We would adjust it to seven feet. And with the

And the site plan and the project standards manual in both places?

We will update the project standards manual to show a seven foot wall to match what we agreed to with DAY: the neighbors.

Okay. And is the three foot berm there as well?

It's an existing berm today that's there.

JAMES Okay. So there's an existing berm of three feet. And then this wall is going on top of it. Correct. JAMES

Okay.

And that's how it's going to be throughout? Correct. Okay. And then what about the other term that was agreed to vis a vis a buffer and that kind of thing? Is that already in there?

Landscape Yes. Landscape buffer is already in the PSM.

It's already there. As agreed, and it wasn't changed in the discussions Okay. With the old model And do we have any conditions we need to change in regards to the discussions with Castellina? No.

I believe that the conditions or that it represents either a roundabout or a signal, depending on what happens. And that's the approach that we're taking. Okay.

And then Mr. Barnes, are we assisting or communicating with the Castellina HOA in regards to facilitating whatever they need to get this election done to get to twothree? And I don't mean whatever they need as in related. I mean whatever Castellina needs No.

We're not.

So that we can make sure that this is getting done

It it's on

a timeline that fits in with the timeline for all of this.

I've spoken with mister Schneidman, who is the board president, as well as emailed. And they're working directly with Mr. Thumma and the related team to effect that. We're not involved with the election within the HOA, but they're aware of the timelines and have committed same to the related team already.

Okay. And they're not asking for, but they have been offered our assistance if we

Mr. Need Seiben knows to reach out anytime they need anything, questions answered, any additional information.

Any other questions from counsel on these series of proposals? I have

a couple left. When we talk about, Ms. Fiorello, about trees up to 210,000 how did we come up with that number?

It was based off a shortfall of three fifty trees.

From conceptual landscape plan? Right. And so, yeah, so it's up to because their landscape plan may find additional opportunities for trees. And so it will be based on the final number on their final approved landscape plan. And that's six per 100 tree amount.

Right. But what if they end up being further short? Are we setting a maximum dollar amount that could be too low? That's my question.

I think the discussion has been they don't intend to be shorter than that, than what they've represented in the conceptual plan. And in fact, they're hoping to

To have the number be significantly less than that?

Yes.

Okay. So you feel like we're covered there even though that number is going to operate as a ceiling and not a floor?

Yes. But we don't

need to raise you feel like that we don't need to raise that number, right? Because if the number is Are

going eliminate the cap entirely?

Right.

Number, If it's an up what difference does it make? GREGORY Correct.

Eliminate the cap. Okay. MR. That dollar amount per tree, but there's no cap.

That dollar amount follows our tree fund policy. So if it was an off number, it would still be calculated the same

way.

Right. Which is why that I don't think we need right. That was the point of my question. Next question from me. When we go through the PZAB recommendations, can we put back what those what those PZAB had things that they wanted addressed.

Have we addressed these items? Obviously, we've addressed the discussion with Castellina.

The PSM has been updated.

In regards to

To street skating materials. Street skating materials.

Yes. What about this part about the parking garage?

We haven't received updated elevations of the parking garage.

And that's the parking garage at the school that we're talking about?

Correct.

Yes. Okay.

Mister mister Tuma and mister Ryan, was there discussion specifically with the folks at Oakmont relative to I think they said in their email, but I wanna make sure this that once the wall and the and the buffering and the berm is done, that was Oakmont's chief concern to the whole thing. Is that accurate? Mr. Thoomba, come to the mic.

We see you nodding, no one else is

Yes, can't nod at yes. The short answer is yes.

Okay. And they will walk through the whole thing, the garage, the school, how it would operate, the way the stacking would go, all that different kinds

of We spent, of course they're here this evening, happy to have them speak for themselves, but we spent last Thursday night with them. We kind of walked them through everything that was happening in the area, particularly the garage and the use of the garage being for students primarily. Also the height of the garage, we walked through that also.

Okay.

And we went through it in detail.

Alright. And then that email that you showed to us came after that?

Correct. Okay.

You have someone standing behind you.

Was first he was

speaking to us.

We You can't we can't talk him

He's he's invited you up.

So And if you gotta come up to the microphone, you probably have to be sworn in. Right? Yes. Yes.

Mhmm.

But

you're gonna testify, you have to be sworn in. So

Could you raise your right hand, please? Do you swear or affirm the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth?

I do. Thank you.

Yes, sir.

My name is Alejandro Real. I'm a resident of Oakmont Estates 10660 Ivanhoe Lane. You're right. That is was our main concern. Once we address the roundabout at Castelina, it is important to us, but it isn't the critical part of our concerns. Mainly coming a right turn out of our community will allow us to use that roundabout to make a left turn in effect. And because getting out out of our community even right now and making a left turn under high traffic is a problem. Right.

And we're all agreed on we're all agreed on wanting the roundabout. And the the that's why you you've seen extensive discussion here about how to assist the Castellina folks to get this twothree vote that can be hard in HOAs, as you know.

MR. Yes. We didn't do it under vote, mainly because we had already spoken to the community in general, and actually invited personally, each board member went out and invited the 17 people that were most affected by that wall. And many of them attended that meeting on Thursday. Some, you know, couldn't attend. But the overall feeling was that they were satisfied with the three foot berm, which by the way, has not been surveyed yet. But that was the agreement, was that it would be a three foot berm and a seven foot wall above that.

And

so the email that was shown to us by Mr. Tuma, you and your neighbors that are sitting with you agree with that email? That's true. And I'm the

one that signed it. Perfect. There you go.

Thank you, sir. Anything else?

No. Okay.

Thank you.

Mr. Toomer, does that mean we're going to addressing that last point about the certification of the three foot berm, right? If the berm is only two feet, we're going to add a foot, and then we're going to put the wall on top of it. Is that right?

Yeah. We've got a little bit of work to do. Obviously, that area is well overgrown. And when Mr. Clark gets in there Mr. Clark and Mr. Daniel Russell get into the design and the construction up, they're going to clear it. They may have to add some soil to make it work. Yes, sir.

Right. And make sure that it can hold the wall and the wall's gonna be stable and go be able to go through a hurricane and all of that kind of thing.

That's correct.

Okay.

Any other questions for anyone? If there's no more questions, can move to the motion part of the evening.

I

do have one last set of questions. We learned some lessons going through LOTUS in regards to now, some of that was in regards to land clearing that doesn't really have to be done here, obviously. And we've since made changes to our ordinances in regards to construction and construction debris and time for construction and all of that kind of thing. Heading this is what I would put under the heading the heading off future problems section of the meeting. When we get into there, obviously, there is going to be a a disrupting period of time when all of this is under construction.

And we know that that just has to be the case because we don't have a magic wand that can just make all of these things. So do we feel like we have significant safeguards, particularly for our residents at Oakmont, to control construction debris, noise, all of that kind of thing?

As That's condition nine. Yeah. As miss Ferriola presented, condition number nine, we based off of the condition that was applied to access to, which, if you recall, came on the heels of the LOTUS incident. And so we used that same language in condition nine to address the measures that would need to be taken for not only construction activity but dust control, water truck on-site, entrances and monitoring and compliance.

And it requires daily monitoring and taking corrective action. Otherwise, we can issue stop work orders until they get it under control.

Yes, sir.

Part of

condition nine

of And we changed our ordinances previously to set up start times and all of that. Didn't we do that after

Yes, sir.

Okay. And that would apply here?

Yes.

Okay.

What else you got? I'm good. That's all I have. All right. If there's no other questions for staff or the applicant, then someone should make a motion on something.

I'll move to approve the rezoning ordinance 2026 dash zero six on second reading.

Motion and second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none. Passes five zero. Next item in the order would be the resolution for the conditional use for the school. Is there a motion to pull that from tonight and set it back for the February? I think

the next is the master plan. Ms. Cohen, I just want to make sure that I make this motion correctly, or Mr. Stillings, some I want to move to approve resolution twenty twenty six-three as amended

With the changes that

With the

changes that we have discussed Mr.

Stillings referenced

The ones that Mr. Stillings referenced in regards to the renumbering

And the

and the one that we have discussed in regards to whether it be the condition or the project service the

CHRISTIE Project Standards Manual.

CHRISTIE project standards manual term in regards to the fact that that is going to be surveyed to be a three foot berm and a seven foot wall.

CHRISTIE Second.

Motion seconded. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, passes five-zero.

Then I'll move to move or to table item

To postpone

20 To postpone 20 item twenty twenty six, S04, the conditional use for pod A school to a date certain of the council meeting on February 24.

Second.

All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Five zero.

And then I'll move to approve resolution 2026Dash05, conditional use for the pod b hotel.

Second.

Move the second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Hearing none, passes five zero. Thank you very much. Mister Barnes, we have one more item on this footprint.

That's correct. So it brings to our next item, which is ordinance number twenty twenty six dash zero nine, which is establishing the Village Landing Community Development District. And miss Wald is here from Billings Cochrane to present this item, and mister Ryan can provide any additional support as well. And miss Cohen has reviewed this item with the team as well.

Ordinance number twenty twenty six dash zero nine, an ordinance of the village of Wellington, Florida, establishing and naming the village landing community development district, making certain findings regarding the district, describing the external boundaries of the district, naming the five persons designated to be the initial members of the Board of Supervisors, providing consent for the exercise of certain powers, providing for conflict, providing for codification, providing for severability, and providing an effective date.

Good evening. Good evening. Ginger Wall, Billing Cochran, 515 East Las Olas Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 33301. Nice to see everybody tonight. I think you have explained ad nauseam the project itself. So I'm not going to go into that at all. I don't think that's necessary. So I'm just going go into a community development district, otherwise known as a CDD. Your legislative text and the petition gives you the background as to that. I'm But just going to go over a few little things as primers for CDDs.

I'm a CDD attorney. I'm a local government attorney. I do not represent developers. I represent local governments such as CDDs and other local governments throughout the state. A CDD is a financing mechanism.

It was set up by the Florida legislature in 1980 through Chapter 190 to provide financing with tax free municipal bonds for cities, developers, to alleviate some of the issues that cities had over the years with expanding and counties, too of public improvements and public facilities. So a CDD is not providing for private. A CDD provides for the public improvements and infrastructures. So when you go through the petition, you'll see, because it is required by law, a listing of those public improvements that are anticipated that could be funded, financed, constructed, acquired by a CDD once it is established and it proceeds forward. And it also requires to provide that overall cost.

And these are just estimates. And it's based on a snapshot in time of what you just discussed as to this project today. So it's not that they have to be done, but this has to be provided to you. So more about a CDD. As I explained, it has those powers, and for the roadways. Public roadways, not the private ones. And also can provide for your off-site improvements. And you've talked about them here tonight, those roadways as well. And they do not have to be CDD owned roadways. They can also be roadways from another public entity, such as yourself as Village Of Wellington, State Road 7, as being a state road as a public entity as well or with the county.

But those can be financed through CDD tax free municipal bonds. So that's the basis as to why developers want to develop and have CDDs. But there's additional benefits to a CDD as well. CDDs, because they are independent, special districts and local governments, are actually governed by the, at first, the landowners that are within the CDD. In this instance, as you have already approved by ACMI Improvement District, you are the landowner.

Within ninety days after the CDD is formed and established, have to have a landowner's election. Where the five that you have listed here don't necessarily have to be the five supervisors. The landowner at that time will elect those five supervisors. Those five supervisors are going to be the ones that make the determination for the CDD. Such as you do, the five of you, as the council people and the mayor. They all have the same powers. We don't have a mayor. Everybody is known as either a supervisor or a member. All of the meetings of CDDs have to be advertised. They have to be open and available to the public.

A CDD has an agenda, just like you have your agenda. CDDs take minutes. All of those things that are required by Florida law, public records laws, sunshine law, also apply to CDDs, because it is an independent special district. CDDs are required to have its own independent website. Certain information has to be provided on that website, as required by law. And then additional information can be provided. The ordinance is provided on the website. So anyone can go to it to see what it consists of. The map of what the district is going to be. And in this case, it's exactly the same as what you have for K Park, formerly known as K Park.

The acreage is exactly the same as well. So all of those meetings have to be conducted. The disclosure is there. Everybody knows what's going on, just like here today. Anyone can come and speak as well. We function in the same way. And when I say we, is I'm normally district counsel. And I represent each and every one of these districts. In fact, this morning I was up in Port St. Lucie with one of my districts there, and we had our meeting at that period of time.

A lot about storm water management, by the way. You'll see that a lot in this state, and it's becoming more and more important. What else is important as to CDDs? Well, the functionality of CDDs and the authority of CDDs are limited. They are limited by what you grant pursuant to the ordinance. And our charter is Chapter 190. Cannot go CDDs cannot go beyond chapter 190. We don't have land use powers. We don't have police powers. We're not going to, as you did tonight, approve any changes to your plan, make any zoning determinations, issue any permits.

That is not something a CDD can do. It does not have that power. That is completely within your realm. The other thing in regards to a CDD is it doesn't have any powers over anyone that's not within the CDD, including how it's going to be financed. So in that regard, the tax free municipal bonds, they are special assessments that are going to be on the property owners when they're issued within the CDD.

That's pursuant to Chapter 170. You do it yourself when you're proceeding forward to have issuance of special assessments. There has to be that direct benefit to those landowners that are within the CDD, and in its proportionality to what that benefit is. Those, again, just like you do. They're open to the public. They're open to anyone. Notices are provided to the landowners themselves of each one of those hearings. And also advertised. That is how that proceeds. What's some of the other things with CDDs?

Well, we have operation and maintenance expenses. So whatever the CDD is going to be responsible for and as I said, I had storm water this morning, so I'll give that as an example. With the storm water management system. The CDD is responsible for that storm water management system. It has to maintain it. It has to maintain it pursuant to the permits that are issued therein. So with that maintenance, it has to have a special assessment, again against the landowners, to be able to collect that money to maintain it. That is done through special assessments, not normally done through ad valorem taxation. But it is a special assessment. Normally those special assessments are placed onto the tax roll.

So the collection, just like the collection of your ad valorem taxes, is pretty close to 100%. Most of the CDDs I have are that 99% range. So a CDD has that ability to continue, unlike an HOA or a POA that may have certain responsibilities, but they rely on the collection method is, if you don't pay, we will go after you, and we will foreclose on you. The CDDs have that better ability to collect those funds through special assessments to be able to continue and to provide those services. The other thing with the CDD is that they are professionally managed.

So they're managed by professional management companies that are geared towards and there's only a few in the state geared towards independent special districts. They know how to do this. CDDs also require a district engineer to be chosen by the CDD board through an RFQ process. Process. And the importance of that is they have someone that is their engineer to make those determinations if they need something with their storm water management system or something else.

The other thing with CDDs that excuse me the other thing with CDDs, other than that, is that the ability for a CDD to continue is in perpetuity until that CDD board comes in front of the village of Wellington and says, we no longer believe we need to be in existence. Now does that happen very often? No. In the many years that I've been doing this, I've only had to do that twice. It's a rare thing.

We have CDDs in Broward County that have been around for approximately forty years. And they have continued to provide the services within those cities. We have many CDDs that are in Miami Dade County that take on some of the responsibilities that Miami Dade County normally would do as to their recreation, as to their parks. Because they're right there in the community, in the CDD. And those CDD board members have made the determination, hey, we know we can do a better job taking care of these parks than the conglomerate known as Miami Dade County.

Now, you don't have that here in the village of Wellington. But that is available for other places. So that's basically, in a nutshell, what a CDD is and how it functions. It is different for every single CDD as to what it's going to provide, what it is going to finance, and how it's going to continue to exist. But the importance of knowing that it is an independent local government is knowing that you're not going to be responsible, as the village of Wellington, for this CDD.

You should not be receiving phone calls from anybody that either resides in the CDD, works in the CDD, or from people outside. Those phone calls should go directly to that district management company that answers that, just like your village manager receives those phone calls coming on a regular basis from residents within the village. But that you won't have that. That's not going be your burden. That phone call comes in, village manager, clerk says, here's the number, here's the information that could be provided to you, and it's also on the website.

So that's one of the other benefits as trying to track down somebody from an HOA management company. So that is that ability for you to understand that that's available as well. The other thing with CDD that a lot of municipalities and counties ask, how does someone know that they're going to be in a CDD? Whether it's a resident there's not for sale residential unit here. It's multifamily.

But how do they know that? How are they going to understand that? Well, if any property is sold within the CDD before and it's required by law before that signature block, you have to have in bold letters, it has a specific type and a specific font that you are purchasing in a CDD, and that there can be bonds issued over your property in which special assessments can be levied. So people know before they sign on that dotted line that they are buying into a CDD. Developers related is one of them but most developers also provide that information in other ways as well.

But that is the minimum that's required by law. That's a question I get all the time, is how does somebody know? The other way they know is once the CDD is established, we're required to file that notice of establishment in the public records of Palm Beach County, which is something that we would do once the CDD is established and formed by a second reading of the ordinance. So I don't want to take up too much of your time. I know you probably have questions. And I'm more than happy to answer any of the questions that you have.

:Well, thank you so much for that very comprehensive walk through for something that probably most of us don't know a lot about. This is a public hearing, is that Yes. :Why don't we go ahead and open the public hearing for the motion?

:So moved. Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Aye. Public hearing is now open. Any cards on this item?

We do have one card. Sue Ellen Loiselle.

Good evening.

Name and address in three minutes.

Yes. Hi, my name is Sue Ellen Moisel, 19711 Weathervane Way. I'm a resident of Arden and also the former vice mayor of the town of Cutler Bay. Thank you, mayor and council, for allowing me to speak here today. I'm here to ask that this commission allow Arden interconnectivity to the adjacent site Artistry Lakes, as stated in the paper Wait,

ma'am, I don't want

to cut you off, but that's card for a different item. That's the next item.

Why did she call my name?

Well, because she pulled the wrong card up. Sorry. Don't worry. We'll bring you back up in a few minutes.

Sorry. It's that Artistry

Lakes. I know. Yeah.

Well, it has both. I it has both numbers.

But did you wanna speak on the CBD issue at all?

Because it No.

I only

checked that.

I only

want Okay. We'll blame the vice mayor. Don't worry about it. You're fine. Have a k. From Miami. Sorry. Is Is that the only card we think we had on that item?

Well. Okay. Yes.

Anyone else want

to speak on this item, whether they filled out a card or not? Seeing none, is there a motion to close public hearing?

So moved. Second.

In favor? Aye. All right. Public hearing is now closed. Ms. Wall, thank you for again, your presentation. I have a couple of things I want I think you covered a lot of that in your presentation, because they want to stay at the podium, because if you're going answer questions, we're not going hear A couple of things I want to just make clear to people who are watching who don't know what CDDs are, which is probably most everybody. A CDD is not a new city or municipality, right? No. It's not going to suddenly become like Westlake did and become its own city? No. Okay. It doesn't have its own governing structure that competes with the village's governing structure?

No. It has to follow the village.

Right. It can't change the zoning from what the village put on it? No. It doesn't have any police powers? It doesn't have any land use authority? No. Correct? It doesn't levy taxes on anyone in the village at large. It can only assess its own people inside its borders.

Must be inside the boundaries of the district.

And those boundaries of the district are the K Park footprint? Same exact ones. Okay. Those are the things I want to

make And that includes both the school site and the front site? It's the entire boundaries, correct.

Okay. And for any debt that's issued, the village is not in any way responsible for that debt?

The village is not responsible for any debt whatsoever.

Who decides on the allocation of responsibility for the debt?

So that is done by an expert that's retained by the district board of supervisors. They'll do a methodology report. And again, it's very similar to what you do in municipalities. That expert will make that determination based upon that benefit that is being received, that direct benefit that's being received by any of that property, and then that determination specifically as to the allocation and the percentage, the ERUs. The board then has public hearings after those reports and those resolutions are provided, and then goes ahead and does the equalization of those amounts.

And you said something very quickly, and I want to let you clarify it for me, because I don't The five people that are being designated is the initial board. Did you tell me that they're going to simply select a new board?

Yeah. So what's required by law is that you must designate five people now. And just like if you started a new city, you have to have somebody So

five incorporators, some Exactly. Initial

Five incorporators would be the perfect way to describe it. They're going to First meeting we have is what's what's called an organizational meeting. We have to set up everything. We have to set up the bank accounts. We have to we have to retain all of the professionals that are required to do so. And so we have to have those five Board of Supervisors. They'll be sworn in. They'll be public officials. We also have to have within ninety days that first landowner's election. It becomes important for other CDDs where you may have multiple different landowners. So they each have a vote, and they each have the ability to have their individual placed.

And how do you select the five?

I don't select them. So what happens is we actually have what's called a landowner's election. In that landowner's election, before the property is platted, it's a one acre, one vote determination. So, for example, let's say it's 40 acres. If one property owner, one landowner has 19 acres, they're going to have 19 votes. If the other one has 21 acres, they're going to have 21 votes. So as you can tell by math, whoever has the 21 acres, they're going to control as to who is elected to the board. Those board members serve four and two year terms. Two of them get four year, the highest votes. And then the other three are two year terms.

So they're staggered. So we will always have an ability to have people on the board. And that's how the landowners' election works. And that is all set usually at the organizational meeting, too.

So do I understand correctly then, as we're allocating out the sale of the land, regardless of minimum purchase prices and that kind of thing, The school is going to have the majority land ownership?

I do not know, because I do not know that answer.

Yes. They have the majority the They have the majority of the acreage current.

And thus they're going to have the majority of the vote here?

For a landowner's election, they would.

Okay. And everybody's good with that? No.

That's the law. So if they're not good with that, they better not be doing this.

If that is and if that's the case, we then come to my two other questions. One is the meeting. Meetings, Mhmm. The public notice, the public meetings, all of that have to happen where?

They have to happen in the county. What is required by law is all meetings of the CDD must occur within the county that they exist.

Okay. So those meetings don't have to happen in the village. They can happen in downtown That West Palm.

Is correct.

As long as it's Palm Beach County.

Long as they're in Palm Beach County. They cannot be in my office in Broward, but they could be in my office

In Boca.

In Palm Beach County.

Yes. They could be in your office in Boca, though.

Well, it's not in Boca. It's in PGA. But yes. If I had an office in Boca, yes. Okay.

And can you just explain for a layperson why this is the option that we would want to go with, and why this is a benefit over not doing this? I'm just

Well, as I said before, mainly for developers, it's that finance mechanism. It provides them with the ability to pass on those direct costs to who's going to benefit from it. And what you can see with it is that the developer is going to be able to potentially, with its funding, with other funding, to do some other things that are better on the private side. Now I'm not going to speak for the developer. I'll let them speak for themselves in that regard.

But that is one of the benefits. So even though there are certain requirements, and then you pass them tonight, that the developer must do, This provides that developer with that funding to do that, and to do that well. The other benefit is making sure that it's going to be maintained to a higher standard. And again, I only gave you storm water. But there are recreation items that you just passed in this just a few minutes ago.

And part of those recreation items is that the CDD, the trails, those type of things, the CDD can provide that maintenance. And because the CDD is a governmental entity, you have the assurance through collection from the taxes, from the tax roll, that money is provided to the CDD to make sure that it continues to be funded and also maintained at the high standard that you want. At the high standard that you expect from the village of Wellington. And that's the other, and I'm just using a few, but that's one of the other major benefits, is even after the funding is completed, even after everything is constructed, it's really providing that ability and that maintenance. And anyone to come in and be able to present in front of the board, hey, we would like to see this in this community.

We would like to see something else in this area that's a linear park. Would you fund that? Would you provide that? Is that something you can do? And that is also something that's easier to do. With HOAs, not necessarily. Or POAs. In this case, would be a POA.

Okay. And so back to what Councilman McGovern said.

Let me respond Just to the to provide a little more clarity on some of the specific thoughts. So as you're all aware, or at least generally aware, is this is a very expensive project. It has tremendous amounts of infrastructure. We have on-site infrastructure. We have off-site infrastructure in the form of storm water, storm water management, streets, public realm, sidewalks, parking, future parking garages.

Exhibit six.

There's a whole

Exhibit six is

Effectively, Exhibit six. So there is many, many costs that this is a very good vehicle for us to get low cost financing. So it's basically tax exempt rates, and you can finance 100%. So you can issue bonds. And for all those items I just mentioned, including, for example, the parking or even the future parking garages that could be built, is we can use a CDD to finance. And that's the primary mechanism. And we're initially the landowners, so we're effectively assessing ourselves. So the bond debt service, you issue the bonds. And they have a debt service and we have to service the debt through issuing basically assessing ourselves. So fundamentally, it's 100% financing for a significant portion of our infrastructure at a low rate.

And that infrastructure that you estimate wanting to finance through this process is earthwork, roadways, utilities, stormwater management, sanitary sewer, perimeter landscaping, recreation, and offside roadways for an estimated total cost of about $57,000,000

That's our preliminary estimate, yes.

Out GREGORY of which $30,000,000 is for the roadway impurence? GREGORY Yes, including the off-site off-site.