Planning and Zoning Board - Regular Meeting

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Okay, we're about to get started. It'll be um I ask of you. Thanks for coming. Um please everyone silence the cell phones. All right, welcome everyone in attendance. Welcome everyone at home. Uh, thank you for coming to the River Beach Planning and Zoning Board meeting. Today is December 11th, 2025. The time is approximately 6:30 p.m. If anyone wants to speak on the agenda item, please complete a public comment card and give it to the planning and zoning board staff prior to the board discussion and before the public comment section is announced. In no event will anyone be allowed to submit a comment card to speak on an agenda item after the item after the title of the item has been read or considered. The total time allotted for each member of the public to comment on each item is three minutes. Please be reminded that the planning and zoning board is committed to civility and decorum by members of the public who attend this meeting. Let's start with a moment of silence.

And the board will lead the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Thank you. Um, may we have a roll call, please? Yes, sir. Chair chair William Wy. Yes. Vice Chair Frank Fernandez, present. Board member Renee Burgess, here. Board member Shandra Stringer here.

Board member refer Williams. Alternate members board member Anthony Brown present. Alternate board member James Gallon here. Alternate board member Marie Davis present. Alternate board member Lucy Joseph present. chair by Miss Williams not here tonight. The voting member will be um Miss Lucy Joseph representing district 5. Okay. Thank you. Um any guess that answer the in acknowledgement of board member absentee notification?

Yes sir, Mr. Chair. Mr. Refer Williams did send an email correspondent that he will not be in attendance tonight. Okay. And acknowledgement of any board member vacant positions. Yes sir, Mr. Chair. We have one vacant position, district two. All right, are we going to roll on to item three? Any additions or deletions to the agenda? None from staff, Mr. Chair. Chair, I motion that we uh accept the agenda as provided tonight. A second. It has been properly moved and second. Chair, are we ready for the vote? Yes. Board member Joseph,

yes. Board member Stringer, yes. Board member Burgess, yes. Board member Fernandez, yes. Board member Wy, yes. Unanimous vote, chair. All right. Any disclosure by board members?

Yes. And adoption agenda. You already did that. All right. On to number five, approval minutes. I move a motion that we approve the planning and zoning board minutes from the October 23rd, 2025 and November 13, 2025 meetings. Second. It has been properly moved and second. Chair, are we ready for the vote? Yes. Board member Stringer? Yes. Board member Joseph? Yes. Board member Vurgess? Yes. Vice Chair Fernandez. Yes. Chair Wally. Yes.

Unanimous vote. Chair. All right. Do we have any unfinished business?

No, Mr. Chair. All right. On to new business. A resolution of the city council of the city of River Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida, on behalf of 4142 Leo Lane LLC in partnership with Centra and Company applicant SP25-0014 to approve a site plan application to construct a 36 unit townhouse style multifamily resident community. The subject site is a plus minus 2.51 acre vacant parcel located at 4142 Leo Lane. Property control number 5642 422500-0000-1170 providing forability conflict servability codification providing for an effective date. The presenter would be principal planner Kurt Thompson. Okay, Mr. Chairman, board members, Kurt Thompson, for the record, and I will present this case before all of you. What you have here before you is by the red dot the project location of the subject site. As you see here, the property is situated along the south side of Leo Lane, east of North Military Trail intersection, and to the west of I 95. 95 here. This is Leo Lane and the subject of property is here in red. Okay. Um I have a number of slides but I'll be going through them fairly quickly here. Has uh Miss Weathers has read to you what this application is all about. This is for a site plan approval to construct the 30 36 unit townhouse style multif family residential community. The subject site is plus minus 2.51 acres.

It is a vacant parcel. The address is 4142 Leo Lane. Uh the conditions are it's a vacant property. You see the the parcel ID. You see the lot size. The zoning is multifamily dwelling district RM15 and the land future land use is MF15. What you see here is the is the uh site plan of the subject proposed site. This is the This is the entrance. It's a two-way entrance here. This is Leo Lane and this is the subject site. This is uh building D with It's two stories with eight units. This is building A with two stories, eight units. This is building D, twotory with eight units. And this is building C twotory with eight units. This is building E and it's twotory with four units for this is 86 24 32 and these four makes 36. This is the architectural rendering of the subject property. just to give the board members and the and the and the good people in the audience some idea of the subject property. Uh front door garage uh here is pretty straightforward in terms of of the of this request. What you have here is the a rendering of the floor plans. This is either a threebedroom or four bedroomedroom project. Uh here you have three bedrooms here. Uh this is the ground. This is the ground floor. This is the great room, the kitchen and the uh living area here

and and a one car and a space for one car. And in the driveway space for another car. So each town home unit will have space availability for two parking spaces. One in the garage, one of the driveway, tandem parking. Okay, now let me move on. This is for the second floor rendering. And what you have here is to the left. This is the master suite here. And then you have two bedrooms here and here. If you go over to here, this is the option where it shows you uh no right here. If you go here, it shows you three bedrooms. The master bedroom here, bedroom here, here, and here. So, that's four bedrooms here, and you see three bedrooms here. I'll let the applicant explain how that will work, but there is two options. Uh threebedroom here, and four bedroomedroom here. uh and I'll go over further um which is along with this presentation. What you have here is again the architectural rendering of the front of the property front elevation. These are elevation shots. You saw the previous one where was in color. This is in black and white for the front elevation. This is the rear elevation as you see by the designation here at the rear of the associate property. The units basically come it splits somewhat like here, a unit here and a unit and a unit here. This is the architectural rendering for the left side and the right side as designated here. This again to give your board some idea of the uh architectural.

This is the landscaping uh proposed lands. Oops, I jumped a little ahead. This is the proposed landscaping for the subject for the subject property. Um there will be kiosk here and a mail kiosk here. Uh it's pretty standard. it meets the the code which I will show you in the next slide. Here you have what is shown what is required the REQ uh stands for what's what is required and this is what's being provided in terms of landscape area. They're going to have a lot more shave trees. uh 90% of them are will be native accent entries 15% native total na uh landscape native landscape will be 70%. As you can see they require they're they're meeting the code and in some instances they're exceeding the regulations. Okay. In terms of parking, as I said, the code requires two poor parking space and they are showing that they have 72. There'll be uh one in in each garage plus a driveway for another vehicle, which will come to a total of 72. Plus, they're showing guest parking. Let me show you where that is. They're showing guest parking here. There are two parking spaces here and here for guest parking. Okay. Can are we can you see that ma'am?

No. Is it how many? Just trust me. There are there guest parking there and there for four total guest parking spaces. Okay.

All right. In terms of staff's review, uh it is reviewed by planning staff and multiple city departments and accordingly uh the project was found to be consistent with the city's comprehensive plan and the code or ordinances i.e. the zoning code and it is now ready for the board's consideration and action. As you can see, we've indicated that it meets the comp plan. The zoning regulations uh levels of service is compatible with this with the uh comp plan, the land use plan. Uh landscaping is compliant. The lighting photometric you see in the um in the sta and the staff and the staff report. We have in the backup here in your staff report a letter from the police department indicating uh compliance along with standards that they have indicated in their backup letter. And this just says since I'm on that um under under on page seven of the staff report condition number nine states prior to the permit issuance that the applicant shall uh amend the lighting for the metric plan to comply with uh the comments included in the November 25th, 2025 memo by the River Beach Police Department, which is this document here which you all have in in your back. Okay. All right. Community comments. staff has not received any comments either in support or opposition of this project and this hearing was promptly noticed and according to local and state law and

particularly uh for this uh in terms of section 31-4 the city code what you have here is the affidavit of sign notification and what you have here is the affidavit for mailer notice and this is a sample of what the the sign is in in terms of the posting of the subject property. Okay. Therefore, um staff [snorts] humbly request that the River Beach Planning and Zoning Board recommend to the River Beach City Council to approve the proposed site plan subject to the staff reports conditions of approval. Those conditions of approval are are stated in your in your backup in the staff report on pages as I said uh on pages six [snorts] and page seven of the staff report. Mr. um Zach I can't I I don't want to mess up Zach's last name.

Ceer.

Ceer. Zach is here from Cotler Hearing. He represents the applicant in terms of as a planning consultant. He will uh go up and make his presentation from the staff I'm sorry for the applicant's point of view. I have one request that I've asked in the past many of times. Uh that I'm requesting that the plainting board hold their questions now to after Mr. Ceer submitted their their presentation. Hopefully by the time you've heard his presentation and this and you've heard staff that um all your questions I hope will be resolved or answered at least to the best that we can. If not we we stand ready to uh answer any and all questions. Um let's see. I just want to make sure that I covered everything. Um yes, there was there was one little project detail that I want to make clear to the board. Uh the proposed development as you saw in the overhead is made up of five twotory multif family residential buildings totaling 36 units. Each unit will feature 1,950 square ft of living area and it includes two 250 square foot private garage, the option there are option of three or four bedrooms as I shown you. Uh two and a half bedrooms and additional driveway parking. Um the main point here that staff or I would like to as staff as your staff to make uh clear to you all the proposed multif family use shall be appropriate for the site and will be consistent with the area's future land use designation which is MF15 medium densely multifamily residential and it current zoning designation

of RM15 multif family dwelling unit according to section according to division 7 section 31-197 of the city riverbased code of ordinances multif family dwellings are a permitted use by right within the RM zoning district thus the project site plan is subject to review by the planning and zoning board and the river city council the maximum allowable density under MF15 is 15 dwelling units per acre the subject property is 2 and a half 2.51 acres speakers which will allow this proposed 36 unit project. And with that, Mr. Chair and board members, uh staff will um conclude their presentation and allow uh Mr. Ceera to present his. Thank you for your listening.

Well, I certainly appreciate that, Kurt. Uh thank you for your time, board members. Uh for the record, Zach Cerero with Cotler Hearing in Jupiter. I am the agent on behalf of the owner and applicant for this site. And in attendance here tonight, we do have the president of our firm Cotler and Hearing with us, Mrs. Nicole Punk Plunkett. Um, and in reality, what what better site than this one for a town home development like this? And if you take a look at your screen here, the site is entirely surrounded by existing town homes, existing condos. There's incomerestricted multif family. There's town homes that are very similar to our design, closer to Military Trail. And then, of course, we do have the church and the retirement home north of us. So, this site is in close proximity to similar uses. It's in close proximity to work and play type uses, and it's in close proximity to I95 with a parcel buffering us from I95 for any um any noise as well, too. So, if I flip to our site plan, and that was a great presentation by uh Mr. Thompson there. Of course, we are proposing 36 units. Each building will be two stories, 27 feet in height. We have a mix of three and four bedrooms, but all of these are the same square footage. Every unit is 1,694 square ft, just with two different floor plans. Every every unit has a onecar garage with a decorative PA driveway, and we do have decorative paper crosswalks. We have the centrallylo male kiosk that Kurt did touch on. We have sidewalks on each side of our road that will lead up to the new sidewalk that we will construct on Leo Lane. And if you look to the top right hand corner of your screen, the property line is pushed back slightly. So, we are dedicating a piece of the right of way to the city um as part of this application and I'll move over to our landscape

plan. I do want to cover this slide quickly. I won't go over anything here, but just know that we are not asking for any waiverss, any variances to the code. This is 100% compliant with the RM15 zoning district. So, moving over to our landscape plan. This was designed by Aaron Bolan in our office. She's the director of the of design, a partner with our firm. She's designed literally thousands of sites across the county. We have a 10-ft wide perimeter landscape buffer that is 100% opaque from the surrounding properties. And why is it opaque? We have gumbo limbo trees planted every 30 feet. We have clusters of verawood trees. Those are the lighter green trees that you can see between the two uh primary buildings there. We have silver buttonwoods between the driveways and fronting Leo Lane and then a cluster of sable palms at the entryway. Kurt did go over the architecture, but the last um the last bullet point I have here, which is interesting because you don't see this on a lot of designs, especially um with town home designs, we've added a Boston hip roof element over the garage. So, that's the that's that roof element that you can that you can see there. So, in summary, um you know, the city is moving in such a such a great direction and I think uh town homes on this site and with such an attractive price point to really um you know, bring in young professionals, families, this is a great project for for the city. It assimilates well, as you saw, with the surrounding area and the location and and its proximity to other uses. And of course, you know, we're very excited. We've been working on this for about over a year now. So, and Kurt, of course, your staff has been fantastic working with us along the way to guide us through this process. So, uh very much appreciate your time and happy to answer myself and Nicole happy to answer

any questions you may have. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Do we have any comment cards on this? No, sir, Mr. Chair. Okay. Okay, we'll start off with the board and we'll start up on the end here and we'll start off with Mrs. uh Sandra Stringer. Thank you, chair. Um I do have a I'll just stick with the first question. What are the u market price for the town homes? Are they market price affordable workforce housing? What tiers do those costs fall into? Right. So these aren't workforce housing. Um I'm sorry. You said they are they're not.

They are not workforce housing. Okay. So there's a little bit of a backstory to this. So ultimately the builder coming in does want to provide these as rental units, but we are asking you for the flexibility to do for sale. And that's really due to uh the fluctuation in the market going forward once we build these. And that actually happened on a recent project of mine where we built them for rent. The market just um you know really applied to for sale units. So, in the narrative that is in your packet, there's a statement in there that it mentions 80% to 120% AMI.

That's average median income. And that's assuming that these are for sale, but it really corresponds with rental. The rental would be similar to a a mortgage price, but uh so the AMI in Palm Beach County for 2025 is about 113,000 per household. So the target buyer for this we expect and anticipate to be between 80 and 120% AMI. So to put a price number on it, this could be between 400 to 550K price range for one of these given it's a threebedroom uh threebedroom, two bathroom, threebedroom, three bathroom. So right if I can answer your question there, rental and flexibility for sale

the market rate. Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you.

All right. Thank you, chair. Um question. Could you go back to the slide pertaining to the materials that are going to be used with the project backing up to I95? what sorts of um materials that you are you going to use to eliminate, you know, noise pollution from I95. Are there going to be, you know, hurricane impact windows put into place? Can you speak to the materials that are going to be used on the site?

Absolutely. So, everything will be hurricane impact and designed to meet wind load, of course. So, as you know, when you install hurricane impact windows, um you know, you're really not hearing much inside, but I will say that we've designed our landscape buffer to accommodate that noise from I95. And we do have a site that directly above I95. We're the second lot from I95. So, it's the landscape that we focused on to attack that that issue. And then what's to the what is that? the east of it.

So to the west is a nursery that has been owned by the same owner since 1988. To the right, I believe that is a nursery. Kurt could respond on that. I believe it is. It's another landscape operation there. They've been there a long time. I don't know exactly how long, but it appears they've been there. But it's there's two landscape operations on either side. And as you know, uh, board members, across the street to the north is the church there. Um, that's the only questions I have for now. Thank you, Joseph.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Wally, I got a couple of questions. Um, first of all, I want to thank you and the applicant for coming into our town, providing us with housing and also jobs. On that note, Mr. sermons. Um, we have that little language that we insert on projects as far as six month after the u certificate of occupancy is issued. We would like to know um how many Riviera Beach residents were employed in in this on this project. How many Riviera beach vendors? We have public we have uh uh electrical plumbing. We have a lot of supply houses here that also employ Riviera Beach residents. Bottom line is the purpose of this little condition that we've always added uh since I've been on this board is to make sure that our community also benefits from the developers and their projects coming in. So if Mr. Sur has that available, he could read it to you and see if you're amanable to adding that as a condition as well. If you give me a moment, uh, Mr. Vice Chair, I'll find

my other questions. Yes. Okay, cool. The parking I saw Mr. Thompson say that there was parking on the tandem. When you park on a tandem, you're blocking the sidewalk. So, what do you mean about that extra car? When you got three and four bedrooms, you definitely have a household with more than one car. So, what what are you talking about the tandem?

Right. Right. Um, are they going to be blocking the sidewalk? So, we've designed the driveways to be 22 feet long. A standard parking space is 18 feet. And that way, most cars, this is not speaking for large trucks, but most cars would not back up past a standard parking space at 18 ft. So, typically for a standard vehicle, they would not block the driveway in this. So, you'll have enough room, right? But there is no street parking in case somebody has a party. You only have four guest parking for the entire development. You you will be able to park along one side of the street. You will. So that would add additional parking for uh for guests who have different type of family functions. Correct.

Yes. Yes. We just can't count that to the code requirement. Okay. The police department gave a a lengthy um recommendations with I I did not see it included as conditions. Did the developer get a chance to read the lengthy Riviera Beach Police Department recommendation because that's part of the security that we're going to be offering our citizens who are hopefully going to be able to move into that uh those town homes. Did they accept the Riviera Beach Police Department's list of recommendations? We did read them and we absolutely accept those. So for one, for example, was adding more lighting between buildings. We accept all of the conditions given by the police department. Okay. So we can add that as a condition as well.

Well, the condition [clears throat] reads Mr. Fernandez has prior to the issuance of uh permit issuance, the applicant shall amend their photometric lighting plan to comply with the uh included letter from November 25th from the River Beach Police Department. So they they agreed to amable to that list all these. Okay. I just want to make sure we're perfectly clear on that. Another thing is you mentioned that you're looking at the flexibility between rental and purchase. So if you're on the rental market, what are you looking at on a rental landscape to charge? What are you going to be charging for rent for the landscape? No, no, for rent. Oh,

you said you wanted rental units with the flexibility of selling. So what will you be charging for rent? So we're planning on rental units. Um, we do want the flexibility to possibly pivot to for sale later in the future and by in the future I mean the near future once we start building and seeing the market. Um, but are are you and I apologize are you looking for a number for rent? Just a rough idea to see how much is going to be uh hopefully our citizens will be able to afford to live there but just just to give us an idea what we're looking at.

Right. Right. So, a three-bedroom in this area, and I, you know, briefly know the market. A three-bedroom, you're looking at between 2,800 and 3,400 depending on the site, the location, but that's a ballpark. That's probably what it would be.

One last thing, uh, in addition to what Mr. sermon is going to read into the record. I did a little research into the Sonata company as [clears throat] as you probably did as well before you accepted them as a client. They have some issues with their rental properties from Buffalo through Florida. I'm sure you've read the issues. Okay, those issues run the gamut of renters unable to reach the property manager, the property manager not fulfilling the the needs of the um of the renter repairs on timely repairs. So, what does Sinatra plan on doing for the Riviera Beach so we avoid the issues that you've had in your properties in Buffalo and Florida?

Right. Well, um I appreciate that feedback. Actually, I didn't know um I knew a little bit of that, but of course, it's difficult to speak directly on behalf of that for that specific question. Um and I'll ask staff, is there any anything that we could do um you know, potentially monitoring? I mean, we're not opposed to making right with that with this property. We want to be a part of the city. That's why we work so hard on this project, the architecture, the landscape especially. Um, so we don't do not want that to go to waste. I can speak on them for that. I know. Um, so I I guess to attack that right now, I just simply don't have an answer to you, but um I will follow up with them and give them your feedback and have them launch this meeting, of course, which I'm sure they are right now.

Okay. I appreciate that. Mr. Sur, do you have that language?

Um, yes. Actually, I have it here. So, the language um that the board previously used was the applicant shall actively advertise employment opportunities for temporary and permanent positions within the city of Rivier Beach, including participation at community job fairs or hosting specialized recruitment events. The developer shall provide a report to the development services department at six months postcertificate of occupancy. And that um report shall document the outreach efforts to acquire local employees. Provide the number of local employees hired. Provide the number of local businesses contracted with uh subject to employment and privacy laws and the percentage of construction costs expended with local vendors.

Thank you. Absolutely commit to that. So can we add that Mr. Thompson as a condition as well? have it notated, Mr. Fernandez. I'll be um well, I'll do it right now. I'm g ask Mr. Mr. Evans to email me that wording so I can add it to the staff report. And you understand the bottom line for that is you're coming into our town. So, I want to make sure the board and I want want to make sure that our citizens and our local uh companies that hire our citizens are at least part of this development uh that's going on in our city. Absolutely. Fully agree. Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. That's it for now, Mr. D. All right. Thank you. Appreciate.

Good questions. Good questions, Miss Burgess. Um, yes. I think I heard the applicant state that you have other projects in this area in Riviera Beach.

Um, we I I apologize for the confusion. I was mentioning the flexibility between rental and for sale. And I know of a project personally that we did and this is in Jupiter but it's a town home project almost exactly the same architecture that we got that approved for rent and the fluctuation in the market. We just needed some flexibility to do for sale. Um and that's ultimately still not built right now but it's a completely different town and I was just speaking um you know about that similarity. Okay. Thank you. And one other question. Can you kind of explain to us or or talk about your company's community footprint?

Uh I apologize. Are you referring to Sinatra and Company or are you referring to Cutler and Hearing? Sinatra. Sinatra and Company for the their community footprint. Yes. Well, I will say this is their first uh project in RI Riviera. I apologize. I'm a little unsure what you're ask.

So what I mean by community footprint, so it's a company millions of dollars. Um what does a company normally do like in a community like their their community footprint? Do they inind donations? Like anything that the company does to give back to a community where they have their projects. Um, well, I'll have to follow up with you on that, but of course, we are committing to that condition um to make sure that we are involving the residents and involving the city of Rivera Beach. Um, but I I will absolutely follow up on that right after this meeting to understand their community footprint and I'll send you an email um or staff or however you would like to do that to answer that question for you.

Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you, man. That's all I have for now, Mr. Chair. Miss Davis. Yes. Um, so with regard to Leo Lane, so you only have one ingress and in egress through Leo Lane. That's correct. And then does that all does all the traffic dump out onto Military Trail? If I may answer that, ma'am, the the the width of that ingress and egress is 24 feet wide, which means cold. It's a two-way ingress and egress. And it it it empties out onto Leo Lane. And then where does Leo It goes from Leo Lane to Military.

Leo Lane straight straight milary to military. Yes, ma'am. West. Leo Lane is east and west and military trails north and south. So it would empty into from Leo Lane to Military. Is that right? That's correct.

Okay. So you have three or four. You have you're planning to this is a family project eventually you hope. Um so I have a little concern about the numbers of vehicles going the traffic in and out. So how many trips is that are you anticipating a day and what does that do to um the traffic pattern and the I guess the the mess of traffic area. Um, so great question. As you know, um, with residential per unit, that's 10 trips per day, which is the lowest trips per day use that you could have. And our peak hour trips, that's really neat how you need to measure it. That's peak hour, you know, leaving for work at 8, coming home from work at 5, let's say. We have 25 peak hour trips. So very, very low for this site.

Okay. And then does that include because I just simply don't know. I'm not challenging you at all, but um does that include workmen and the people who work there? Um I mean do you So it's it's I actually um I asked that question myself. It I don't believe it was this project. It was something in the past. But that does include actually like Amazon deliveries like just um a standard or average amount of you know landscapers coming in to do landscape or something along those lines. It does account for those trips as well too.

Okay. And then do you don't have much yard space there for families to you know participate. Is that I don't I'm not really good at reading this sort of thing. So, is that correct? Right. Right. So, they do have they do have a backyard. Um, but unfortunately, just based on the width of this site, the yard space is limited. And are there any terraces on the units? Uh, I apologize. Say again. Terraces. Terrace. Terraces. No. Balcony. No. No. Not with not with this architecture. Okay. Thanks.

Thank you, ma'am. The gala Uh I have one question is for staff and they may not be able to answer it either. Uh what are we doing uh about the fire department? You know they have relocated or moved to one that was there out there on military trail. Uh there's a lot of um new development going up in that area and what's happening with the fire department. Mr. Chair, if I may.

Yes. The uh city of Riviera Beach and the um fire department um at this time is not um reactivating the fire depart fire station 89 I believe is the number on military trail. Um and they um in the reconstruction and uh consolidation process, the staff at that station was moved to the one uh near Congress. Um but in that process, there was a um investment in technology for the traffic signals along the corridor. Uh so that even though the closest fire station is no longer on military trail, that the fire department can get to residents much quicker um through the um automatic signalization. And I don't know all the ins and outs of the technology, but the signals um do change based on those uh trucks going through uh to serve um or respond to emergency calls. U so that has reduced the amount of time it takes the fire department to get to this end of the city. Um for additional information on their response times and how they've adjusted with the station consolidation, I would have to reach out to the fire department for additional information. Um but that is my um development services understanding of how they've modified operations and utilized technology to continue to provide a a high um response time to issues that may take place on that end of the city. uh if you could have uh the fire department come in and give us a status on that because uh I don't know if you've ever been in that area about between 4 and 6:00 you can forget it you know it is it's it's backed up especially on military trail I feel that there's a I know there is going to be a lot of issues and a lot of slowdown down with the fire department

if there's any major issues in that area. Yes, sir. So, I would like I would like to see or hear something from the fire department on that. Yes, understood. That's all I have, Mr. Brown. Thank you, sir. My questions have been addressed. Mr. Chair, Mr. Chair, I have another I have another question.

Yes, ma'am. So for the fire department to go in and out, there's no turning basin or for lack of a better word, how do they it doesn't look like there's enough space for them really to turn. If you had if you had the police, the fire and others there, how are they going to get out?

So we designed the T turnaround and we've ran an autoturn exhibit. our engineer ran an auto turn exhibit um that shows a fire truck being able to do a three-point turn and back out using that T turnaround and that's um not counting the guest spaces. So cars can be in all four of those guest spaces and a fire truck um a garbage truck any large vehicle can turn around very very easily. it meets all of the radiuses for fire and of course uh the fire department did approve that after they reviewed those autoturn exhibits.

So when you have the fire department usually have the paramedics and you have the police if they're all on one in one street. How do they really how does that how are they going to turn around in the middle and you have an emergency in the middle of one of the

Right. And that's a great question. Um, so they will use a turnaround and what I've learned, um, just really through experience I would say is that they already have a plan for these approvals. Once a project is approved, they have a plan with all of those different agencies on how we're going to circulate through the site and okay, where is the fire access for this particular site? A lot of sites that are very very complex, I mean this one's not, you know, it's just one drive aisle, but a lot of sites that are very complex, you only have one fire access when there could be a large parking lot, a lot of different buildings. So, um, to my understanding, they already have a plan going into it before they get there.

Who's they? fire department, police department, uh paramedics. I'm not an expert at anything, but it be great if we could see something a little bit more specific. I'm not concerned about one. I'm concerned about you're going to have a lot of cars that are already parked there. You also have even have the fire department, maybe more than one engine and depending on the situation and the paramedics and the police and they all have to move and it doesn't appear that there's enough space for them to independently move.

Right. Absolutely. Um and and what I can do is I can follow up personally with the fire department, police department and um you know paramedics get some type of coordination prior to approval of this project if that is the um Mr. Chair.

Yes, I'd just like to also add so the fire and police they also have the ability to um restrict the access at the entrance. So they could in effect use both sides of the street if they had to maneuver multiple vehicles um in and out um because they could prevent cars from from going into and leaving the uh development because it's of of a very small size. So that's just one other um and in determining uh this all the plans go to both police department and the fire department and the fire department has a very specific um specifications that prove that a firetruck uh can comfortably turn around which was uh referred to earlier. So, the fire department does approve the access and that's very based on very specific code regulations, but I just just wanted to add that they can control both sides of the street uh if they need to get multiple vehicles in.

The main the main thing here, ma'am, to bear in mind is the fire department and the police department as well as police department were a part of the review pro process for this permit for this application and they you know gave their approval. Now I will say having heard everything else I will just summarize that if this project is approved and if they go the building permit there'll be another review made and completed by the police department and the fire department in particular since uh Mr. gallons point uh as a part of the permit review process. They do another thorough review to make sure that not only that 24 foot wide right away, but also as you see that the um that T formation there is where they could come in, come back out, back up, and then come back out again. See, there's another project there. I'm sure you realize I'm sure Miss Gallery realizes there's another residential pro property just to the to the west of this site. Very similar in terms in terms of its layout with a oneway with a two-way in and out with uh I think they have a culde-sac that that that unit that uh project to the to the west here but the same the same concept. They come in, come back back out, and then go back out again. The issue here that Mr. Don brought up, of course, is that along military trail, it gets rather busy. So, we'll make sure that during the permit process that through the fire department that there won't be any issue there.

Well, I wasn't really concerned about one vehicle. all this concern about the multiple vehicles and the cars all being in what appears to be a relatively even though it's two lanes um relatively small area. Um that's all I wasn't disputing anything about one vehicle. I was more concerned about multiple emergency vehicles and the residents. Thank you. Thank you ma'am. Yes,

just to uh as a reminder um we had Chief Kurd in here from the fire department previously and as Mr. Evans stated before a project is reviewed, they do the analysis of the turning radius. I know myself because I've asked Chief Kurd uh and other representatives as to the turning radiuses of their equipment and the fact that the police arrives first then usually paramedics if there's an emergency and you sometimes have a rig and I was assured that they do these studies with the turning radiuses before they give a recommendation on a project. I just want to make sure that is still the ongoing u scenario uh as we were presented. I'm going back a couple of years now uh on different uh development projects. So when we vote on something, I'm I'm taking into consideration prior statements made by your your division and also Mr. Kurd as to what the analysis that he puts into with his rigs before they give the approval and the same with the police department. So, I just want to make sure we follow up with them that they still have the same policies in effect for the uh when they give out their approval process. And as far as military 12 between 4 and six, some city fire departments um and Mr. Kerr's aware with because we're doing it right now on Singer Island when you have certain develop usually station a rig in a certain area during a certain time if they deem it necessary because of lack of response. So that's something logistical that you can bring up to Chief Kurd u as well because I've always brought I've brought it up to him and he's assured me that uh logistically they can work it out. So, if there's an issue with military trail between 4:00 and 6:00 or in the morning with traffic, maybe he can work out something since

there's nothing no uh FD station up there at this time that maybe he can work out something where he can leave a paramedic squad and a rig up in that area during those times uh just in case uh for response time. Otherwise, they'll be in a parking lot with everybody else. My humble suggestions. Thank you, chair. All right. Uh, sir, I have a a question just to make sure and so the uh people in the audience, people at home can kind of understand the rendering. Um, the property we're looking at technically how it's presented, it comes out to Leo Lane. Correct. Correct.

All right. So, what is that directly to the south of that? Cuz I did a little work in that area also. And to the south of that, is that a road that leads to Military Trail also, or is that the back part of the other apartment complex on on another road? Um, so of course apologize for the confusion. So you're talking about the south of our property directly south, right? There's no there's no um road that connects anywhere else other than to Leo Lane and then Leo Lane to Military. There's no other connection. Okay. Because looking at the map, the way it was dotted off, it looked like it was another road on the other end or whatever. Um, right.

Right. So like like they had there. Okay. So yeah. So assuming that that was another road cuz I was just saying that would be another area. Um and that would explain why it's not a through way. I see. Which would have broke up the traffic and made it a little easier for traffic coming in and out. So right so that is closed off. And um I believe the reason really in the future would be and it it it makes sense is there's not no opportunity for cross access with this. This is a you know private community and we have a nursery on both sides of us. So there's no opportunity for cross access between properties given uh the privacy of our residents.

Okay. And also my one of my I guess the main concern I guess everyone's concern because everyone on the board addressed it um about the parking for um the guest area that's on the far end. Um and just assuming like you say they it seem to be very nice three four bedroomedroom condos correct which like I said probably going to have more than two maybe three cars if four and if that's the possibility um and I know you said you moved the the condos slightly in from the border which kind of alleviates some of the space that was um for the size of the drive of um of the road and I was just a little concerned is that what happens when or what would be something that you can do when there's so many cars on one side of the road to where someone parks on the other side and then we start having issues with like you say any kind of fire trucks any kind of you know police department or whatever going through is it any kind of

right and that that's really the difficulty of making a plan so we have four guest spaces and 36 units We have a mix of three to four bedroomedroom units. We have a onecar garage and then a onecar driveway. So in reality, you can park two cars on your property. Any other car would be parked on one side of the road and then the four guest spaces you would assume if all working correctly that would be just for guest. And really we're bound by meeting the code. So, when we're designing the plan, we're saying, "All right, we need we need 72 parking spaces, which all are garage counted with the driveway, that's two for each unit, and then the guest spaces." Um, so going over that, we don't we've ran the numbers on it. We don't anticipate much of an issue going forward, but I certainly understand your concern. Um, you want Oh, yeah.

Hi, good evening. Nicole Plunkett for the record, uh, with Cotler and Hearing. I just also wanted to add in too that uh there will be transparency and we'll provide this to the applicant as well. Transparency for those who are interested in even moving in here in the first place about these are the rules and regulations. You know, when you are interested in moving into a new location, whether it be rental or purchasing, there's an understanding of what the rules and regulations are for the community and that that should be provided clearly to potential residents who are interested in moving in. understanding that there's one garage space, one tandem space for guest parking spaces, and the potential to maybe park on one side of the road for a special event or party. That'll all be coordinated within the internal rules and regulations of the community, but also provided ahead of time so that way there's no surprises for the residents who are moving in and and unexpectedly don't have enough parking. Um the price um of a marketability you said from 4 to 550,000 correct for home home ownership.

Correct. Right. And that's just a ballpark number based on the market today in Palm Beach County in this area. No, I understand it's expensive and everything. Um and it's a pretty nice area. Um do we have any more questions by the board? I'm I chair. Thank you. Um I wanted to follow up with a few things. one, how will we track the usage of local vendors on this particular project? What would be the tracking mechanism? I will direct that answer to Kurt. How however it's been done in the past, we're certainly committed to doing so. Um, Mr. Chair,

yes. Um, so this uh it's not a city code or regulation. Um but we are um per the planning and zoning board's recommendation putting it in the entitlement. Um and so what we'll do is we'll um once they have applied for their building permits um then we can uh remind them of the requirement to track um and then and then the uh developer is required to provide us within I think it's six months six months I think

uh and that's six months starts from the day that they uh get approval for people to move into the to occupy the space. Um so within that six-month period they have to provide us the report uh that provides a summary of what was um done uh for the project related to employment and uh utilizing local vendors but it's not a code requirement. Um it is u something that we put into the entitlement process. They're required to do it but we don't have any specific uh reporting guidelines on it. Followup chair.

Yes. So yeah, I understand that it's not a it's just something we have as part of operations, but if they're do the whole entire project and then show up six months later and then not do what we asked them to do, that's sort of kind of a moot point, right? Because if the project would be done so I was asking about the tracking mechanism. I'm not trying to add any more work to anybody else, but I just wanted to be clear on that part of it. Um, one more follow-up question, chair, if I could. Um, in regards to the reviews and you said that that you would follow up once we approve it, you move on next to the council. Where would the followup to us rest?

I Well, I'm committed to following up with you immediately after this. So, I would say uh well, of course, I need to follow up with Kurt and some agencies. So, as fast as I can get responses back, but if I get responses back tomorrow, I will send that over to Kurt and he'll forward that to you all. Okay. And then the last one, um, with the community footprint, I know you said you sort of kind of answered it, but I didn't see a clear answer on that. Um, I know and I if I'm not mistaken, you said you will follow up with that as well. So, I'm just trying to get timeline so we don't say we're going to follow up and then we don't hear anything else.

Right. Right. So, I am going to follow up with the owner as soon as I am done with this presentation here. I'll get a response from him tomorrow and I will follow up and send that to Kurt and he will coordinate that with you all. So, you will have an answer on that right away. All right. Thank you, Chair. Chair.

Yes, Ch. Uh, Leo Lane is are they is there any plans on widening that road? Because we just approved a big complex over there that's going to have two or 300 uh, you know, a large complex and they're also going to be coming out on Leo Lane also going into Military Trail. what's going on with Leo Lane that's going to be able to handle that that large traffic. Mr. Chair, if I may. Yes.

Uh, at the moment I'm not aware of any plans to widen Leo Lane. Um, based on the traffic trips that have been calculated for all of the recently approved projects, uh, the city engineer or public works hasn't indicated the need for widening. Uh, so I believe it's safe to say that it has not been a determination that a widening project is needed on Leo Lane based on these recent projects. And and just to follow up to his question, um, is there a light at the end of that military trail? It is. Okay, I thought it was. All right. Is there any more questions? Do we have a motion? Okay. I'd like to motion to the for the uh approval of uh SP 250014 as read into the record by Miss Weathers, explained in length by Mr. Thompson as well as the applicant to include the conditions that were read into the record including the lengthy letter from the police department, the hiring uh conditions that we also uh requested and any other conditions set forth uh in Mr. Thompson's uh explanation.

Second chair has been properly moved and second. Are we ready for the vote? Yes. Board member Burgess. Yes. Board member Joseph. Yes. Board member Stringer. Yes. Vice Chair Fernandez. Yes. Chair Wally. Yes. Unanimous vote. Chair. Welcome to the city by the planning zona board. Thank you so much for your time and I will follow up with you all immediately. Thank you and have a good night. Thank you.

On to 7B. An ordinance of the city council of the city of River Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida, adopting updates to the city's comprehensive plan pursuant to chapter 163, Florida statue amending the definition of the future land use element, the housing element, the transportation element, the infrastructure element, the recreation and open space element, the conversation element, the coastal management element, the intergovernmental coordination element and the capital improvement element. Removing the public school facilities element and adding to adding it to the newly added community resource element. Adding an economic development element. Amending the future land use map of the comprehensive plan by changing the future land use destination for for part parcels of land more practical described in exhibit B from office and commercial to new land use general mixed use and office to single family residential providing for inclusion into the comprehensive plan providing for trans transmitt providing for conflicts providing for servability and providing for an effective date. The presenter will be long range plants long range principal planner Senise Simon Roman. Good evening board.

Good evening.

Good evening staff. Good evening residents of the Great Riviera Beach, Florida. This is December 11th, 2025. I am Sonid Simon, principal planner here in development services. And tonight we'll be talking about potential land use changes um that we are proposing as a part of our comprehensive plan 20 240 um that we are trying to get to that finish line. Um, and we are excited to begin this process as we get to the finish line with our our plans update. The goals for this evening is to understand the potential changes that are being presented this this evening to learn where this is we are we are proposing for this to happen and we are hoping to get to the decision on a new land use that we are proposing for the city. I was hoping it was a different graphic but we will work with this one. Um during our process during our process of the comp plan, we started talking to residents about what is it that we need to see here in the city and we also talked to our business our our local businesses to ask what is it that we're missing in our city? How do we improve our city and how do we make this a space that you're able to grow and what are the things that we need as a city? And a lot of things that were brought up were addressing in this is a word cloud. So in the word clouds, the bigger things that came out the most, those are the ones that you see the biggest in wordwise. And so a lot addressed our economics,

commercial areas, talked about our downtown, talk about places to go, making it a destination. Where is it that we can go to have a restaurant? Why do we have to go to West Palm Beach or down to Delray or up to Jupiter, right? Why can't we have these things locally? What are our kids able to do? What are some of the activities that they're able to have? Why is it hard for recreation to be within some of our areas in our city? So, those are some parts of the conversations that we had. And then when we had our survey go out, we had folks talk about our local businesses need to be addressed. How are we supporting our local businesses? And then our underdeveloped commercial areas. What are we doing about these places? And then alongside of that, we looked at what were the top themes that we kept hearing from everybody. And number one theme was support our local dining, retail, and entertainment. How do we strengthen that? They talked about how how do we look as a city, right? They talked about parks and recreation enhancements. We talked a lot about housing. Where do we live? How do we how do we make sure that we are not pushed out of our areas? And then and also when we talk about our seniors, where do our seniors live if they want to stay within the community, but maybe my house is just too big for me, but I want to be maybe a smaller house, maybe on the property with my rest of my family or friends, right? We talked about different things. And then local business development. How do we support our local businesses so that they too are strengthened in our ear? So we started so as a team we started to think about what can we do as we look at our maps today as we look at how our city is set up um what is it that we do what is it that we do and I gave a sneak peek but I'm going to go in what is it that we do to allow all this to happen in certain places and so what we'll be proposing today is a new land use our

new land use is going to be a general mixed use and why are we doing it we're doing it because like I said we want places that we can actually go to and enjoy. But we need our neighborhoods to be places where we don't have to always get into our car to go across town to do that. We know we need to increase our economics here in the city, right? We need to have we need to have places where that they're more than what we have today and that we're able to buy food nearby, that we're able to shop nearby, that we're able to lounge nearby and then grow have a stronger community because it doesn't necessarily mean commerce. It doesn't necessarily mean we live there, but we can also hang out there. It could also be our parks where our kids go or where we go to take a walk and to actually move our bodies, right? these social gathering spaces or to have more concerts on the green, more movie nights as a city, just places that are close together, but we're not doing to we're not going across town to go and enjoy someone else's property, right? And then use our land smarter. So what we're proposing as a city, we're proposing to remove because right now we have this office designation where we kind of were able to make this back in 23. It was October of 23 where it was brought to the board to this particular board and we started talking about in the office, can we add a residential aspect to it? In the office, sorry I bumped I bumped my jump. We also talked about in the office, can we add restaurants or smaller restaurants? Um, are we able to add fitness centers? So, what were we creating when we did that office? We were creating this mixed type use. And so, we decided and we also realized, and we'll see the map in a little bit, that we didn't have too many office spaces that was going to allow

this. So, if we're already creating and trying to have this place that has multi-use and we notice that our city as a whole is missing some of this, why not stretch it in certain places that make sense? And then we started talking about mixeduse developments in our commercial areas that would allow to provide housing, more civic use and other development options. Why? We have a lot of pressures that are happening here in our city. People are wanting to buy commercial properties as you guys were just talking about Leo Lane and all. People are p trying to buy our commercial properties and turn them into housing, right? So, which is great. We need more homes, but at the same we need commercial. So, why not have this area that's allowing us to do just that. And then we need to improve our corridors. When you come off of 95 or you come off of Federal Highway and then you go down Blue Haron or you're going down Barack Obama, we know we can improve the space to allow us to do more there. We know that it has it can I would love if I can turn down and I can get in and I said, "Oh, I needed some broccoli for tonight's dinner." Right? There's some certain things that we know that we can do that would allow us to have a higher quality of life here in the city. And so we are proposing a general mixeduse to help us to do that. The language that we are proposing is that the general mixeduse category, it's intended for smaller mixeduse commercial centers outside of the downtown mixed use. We are not trying to take away from the downtown that the city has been working diligently to build. Development in these areas should be pedestrian and transit friendly and encourage a vertically mixed use mix of uses. But I also think horizontal is fine too and though at lower intensities than what is permitted in our downtown use. We are not trying to be downtown.

This is not my presentation. It's okay. We'll work with it. Some of the things that I want us to look at is how do we look currently? I need my presentation. talking.

This is the technation. I apologize. H go say go dance. All right. We uh we are transferring the uh updated PowerPoint presentation to the room computer. Um, in the meantime, what staff is proposing is a result of um, as has been um, articulated before this, we've had many community conversations since we started this comprehensive plan uh, journey and one of the things that I think we all agree on are uh, the need for additional commercial opportunities in the city. Um, and right now some of the developments that have come in have stated that the land uses aren't fitting what they're trying to do. The project that was mentioned earlier, Celeste on the trail that's on Military Trail, uh the land, a part of the land under it was had the future land use of commercial, which did not allow residential. And for that reason, they um requested and were approved by city council to change the future land use to residential. Um the zoning district that we're proposing right now, uh mixed use, general mixuse, would have allowed the residential and the commercial to coexist on the same property. So you can have a development where you have um some are all commercial or commercial on the bottom floor and then a residential above that. There are several places in the city that we identified that this use u would be helpful so we don't have to pick constantly between one or the other. When we envision our downtown district we envision mixed uses but so far um outside of that we're very um

what we use in the planning world uklitian in terms of our zoning. one type of use here, only residential, only commercial, only industrial. Um, and this poses to mix that when it comes to certain types of residential and commercial so we can get the most out of those properties. And we believe it's a benefit for uh developers as well as our community and the things we're looking for. Um, so all of this is a result of the feedback from the residents and looking at our map on what we can do better with the property uh that we already have. Uh so again just recouching the conversation uh of what Miss Simon has stated earlier in the presentation and if you're ready to continue Miss Simon I'll the floor back to you. Thank you.

Excellent excellent summary. Um some of the standards that we will have with this one is that to establish a mixeduse zone. Um it promotes buildings that are appropriate with scale and design. Um ensuring the comph compatibility with the adjacent residential areas. Um requiring amenities and services that accommodate day-to-day needs of residents employees and employees. encouraging walkable streets, public spaces, and active ground floor uses if they're doing this invertically. And then allowing net residential densities up to 15 units per an acre um with an intensity of 2.0 F.

Examples of this on the left you'll see it's a vertical mixed use. Um this one is in Boon Beach, Florida where you have um this particular establishment has the ground floor is active to be retail, restaurants, um different services and then above our housing. And then you have the one on the right um which is in uh Peach Tree Corners in um near the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia um where it's a horizontal mixeduse development um where they're using different land uses is within one space, right? So they have shops, restaurants, housing, recreation, um, and other commercial uses. There before you is the proposed map of these changes. And the proposed map does not only have a GMU, which is our general mixeduse, but it also has a change of office going into single family um residential because we're also doing a we're also doing a change that we believe needs to be had during this time frame of updating our future land use map. So, I'm going to address that. How I'm going to address the um one of the changes that's happening. So, one of the things that we're going to be doing with what we'd like to do with the GMU is getting rid of our office designation and changing that office to two things. One would be changing it to general mixed use in the areas that it's appropriate. We also have where you can see my arrow this particular area where we have office um within a neighborhood. And so what we're requesting from the board today is that we're able to change that office to single family residential. So that way it matches um the now that way it reflects the current zoning use that's happening which is single family and R six it's

RS6 what it can so then it'll just go nicely with the zoning that's already happening as single family and allow that community to be a residential community without this office aspect to it. that was kind of hanging over it. The map that you see on the left, it's a little hard on you guys on this big screen, but what you see on the left is a little darker purple. Those are the streets of 25, the 25th and 27th um AC on on Blue Heron. The neighborhoods that are on Blue Heron right now, like I just showed you, their office. And so we're requesting that they turn into single family residential. We believe that some of this was done because the homes in front of it that are actually alongside Blerin are part of the CRA and those are considered downtown. And so maybe the ideas um was that if we had them office it would kind of flush nicely. But as a as a team we've decided that the use are homes. So not why not align it with single family. The next change that we'd like to do is that the other areas of our city that are considered office to turn them into general mixed use. This particular one is along East Blue Haron. It's currently office like we said and across the street from it is part of the CRA and that that's the downtown. But we believe because this area is closer to homes and because there it's already an office use that it makes sense to just keep it as is and utilize it as the use that it's going there. But we want to make sure that the actual idea of flexibility is in there so that way they're able to utilize that space more.

And Miss Simon, if I may jump in again, Mr. share. Um this area again is another example of where the existing zoning and future land use was not serving uh the city or development well as there was a recent text amendment to allow restaurants in the office district because before restaurants weren't allowed only um very strict and germanine office uses were allowed there. So we've been recognizing for some time that we need additional flexibility in terms of uses in these areas. Uh so that's another example of the um prior or current future land use not serving the current needs of the city that led to this recommendation for the comp plan

and it was um restaurants and fitness centers and the areas that were proposing for this to happen are where you see it. We just talked about that corner on um East Bluehair. We talk about changing the ones that are in the middle that are going from office to residential. But then there's another one on blue heron to the far left that would be turning into general mixed use as well. Those are the properties to the north would be there are our last standing office properties that would be going into general mixed use. We'll talk about the property south of it um in just a little bit. Sorry, we went a little bit backwards. All righty. Our other change that we'd like to do, we talked about we had a couple of areas that had that office aspect to it, but then we h when then we talk about general mixed use allows us a little bit of flexibility. We learned that we have um people that are coming every day to kind of change our commercial into residential. Um, so we said, well, why not extend that to other areas that may potentially benefit from turning into um a mixed use as well? Where we go? So, the areas that we'll be talking about, um, we'll be talking about going across Obama. We have that area that is south on Blue Heron, and I'll get a little closer in a minute. We have some of the areas around 95. If anyone is familiar where the McDonald's is, there's a Denny's and other commercial properties there. Like there's a hotel, a Super 8 that's there. And then one on Military Trail very in the same vicinity of the St. the um the Leo Lane that we just discussed today.

So the property that is be south the property on the south end right now it's a neighborhood commercial zoning with the commercial with the commercial flu on top of it. This would allow this area to be able to do more. It'll be nice. It would complement the new police station that will be across the street from it and the neighborhood schools in that beautiful neighborhood. Um so this would just be a nice active area. um if if um we're able to develop it well in that region alongside Barack Obama on the north end. We're looking at having this be a very much of a flow as the city to the north of us starts to consider areas that they would like to intensify and make more of a downtown feel. If we start to prepare ourselves as a city to make this more of a a multi-use area, this would make it this would be a very active space for us as we look at ways of um improving Barack Obama Highway. We also are proposing this to happen on the south end because just north on near MLK, that's part of the CRA. It's considered a downtown. And so we're proposing to have the rest of that commercial area to just turn into a mixeduse so it flows nicely with the downtown. We talked about, like I said, it was near the I95. Whether we go left or we go right off of 95, we're able to turn this into a robust area where we're able to um enjoy different amenities as well as turn into our homes possibly. and then along Military Trail, allowing them to do a little bit more with those properties so that way they actually are robust commercial across Military Trail so that Military is more active and not

just a residential space um because we don't want to be bedroom communities to the cities north and south of us. We also want to be a destination um for everyone in our region. Thus, city staff recommends that um planning and zoning board you all um acting as a city's local planning agency. We're re we're asking that you recommend approval of the amended future land use map. Um the remaining elements that we talked about in the title of this will be brought back to you in the future, but tonight we are asking about this particular future land use change. Any questions?

Mr. Chair, if I may uh clarify um because of the changes that were sent to you earlier, um you don't have to make a formal recommendation uh in in the form of a vote today to city council as you will see the full comprehensive plan to you uh soon after we've taken in all this feedback. But this uh hearing is an opportunity for you to give your feedback on this and as well as the residents who we've noticed each individual property owner who would be subject to this future land use change so that we can hear back from them before finalizing this plan that then we will be requesting your formal vote on but tonight is for a feedback as we finalize this plan. Okay. Thank you. All right. Would we like first of all to go to do we have any cards? Any comment cards for this?

Yes, sir. Mr. Chair, we do have a comment card. Miss Mitchell, Miss Mitchell,

Mitchell, um 1691 Essex Lane. Um I'm calling I have a few questions. I just found out about this. Um I'm a lifelong resident of Riviera Beach. Few questions. Um, first of all, where's the downtown?

Broadway. Okay. Cuz I was like I never Okay. [laughter] Um, I'm talk I'm interested in the homes on West 25th and 27th. Okay. Those are the homes. I have a few questions. Okay. one, if the town houses that you were talking about for Leo Lane, the guy said they're going to go between 400 and 500,000. I I guess that's what he said. Am I correct?

Okay. How are the owners I might be jumping? How are the owners on 25th and 27th going to be compensated? I'm I'm maybe I'm maybe I'm jumping. I'm under the impression what what's going to happen with 25th Street and 27th Street, the homes in the red. What's going to happen with those homes? That that's another project, ma'am. Huh? Mr. Chair. Yes. If I could just clarify, if you want to go ahead and make all of your comments and we we will attempt to respond.

Understanding my understanding. Isn't it something about im imminent domain going on? I've read something somewhere. I don't know. That's why I'm up here asking. If you if those homes on 25th that are in the red and 27th, if those homeowners are going to be displaced, I don't know. But if there if it it's a possibility that they are going to be displaced, how are they going to be compensated? These people have lived in Rivier Beach all their lives. We don't want to leave. Just like you said, we don't want to leave. But where in Palm Beach County, if you go fair market value, I think that's the word. If the house is worth 400,000,

okay, where are they going to go get another house in Rivier Beach for 400,000?

That's my first question. Um, my aunt and uncle lives on 25th. They are 78 and 80 years old. They own their home outright. Where are they going to go? Where are they going to go in Rivier Beach? And I'm sure some more people in here with the same question if that's the plan cuz why are they in red? And explain to me the imminent domain because I I have it. I found it somewhere. I just couldn't get it out. So, if you can explain, start there with me and maybe that'll help me out. And I want my city to grow. I've lived here all my life, but we got to do it right.

Okay. So, who am I going to look at?

Okay. Thank you for the questions. Um and I do as I spoke to members of the audience I felt that was um the concern and so what I spoke about earlier and I want to make sure that we're all on the same page. So we're changing parts of our map our future land use map and one one of the things that we found I'm going to go laser pointer on that table as well. Oh, it's magic.

So, I kind of know how the integration segregation and all that. I kind of have that back.

Okay. So at some point throughout the history these properties on the 24 on 25th and 27th they were re they were changed to office uses. So as we looked at the map we said why are these residential properties office uses? So what we're proposing is to change them back to single family residential. There is no taking being had. The city is not trying to take the homes, push people out of the homes. We're just reclarifying that this is a neighborhood and so that they need to have a future land use of residential single family. And so that is all we're doing with those properties that are on 27 and 25th.

Yes, ma'am. Chair, she brought us the other way. Yes. Could I also say um Sony if we're you're saying changing it from office to single family that would actually make it harder for businesses to come in that area. Correct. To put in businesses. It would only be allowed for single family use. Correct. Sure. Do we have any more comment cards? I think there was only one. Correct. No, sir. Mr. Chair, that's the only comment card we have for this item. Do we have any other questions about the board? I know she her second question was about imminent domain. Could you speak to that briefly?

Just a general statement. Such an evil word at times, right? Oh, okay.

Um, so some of the fears and I and I heard it a couple times where um imminent domain was utilized. Um, and that's kind of a way that sometimes a city would come in and say, "We're going to pay you X amount for your property because we need to use it for other uses." That is not any part of our plan as our city for these particular properties. Um, for our comp plan right now, we have not identified anywhere that we will be taking of a property. I don't even think we have the funds for that. Um, so no, that is not part of our plan to be do utilizing imminent domain. um for your properties.

Chair, if I'm Miss Davis, Davis,

um when designations are being changed from commercial to residential, does that change the value of the property? So we to before we did this aspect to even present it or to even offer this idea um we talked to our properties appraisers office and to understand how what happens um to properties when when this happens and it's not the moment that you change the use all of a sudden the value of the property increases or decreases or whatnot. It's how sales happen afterwards and how that impacts. So it really has to do with what's happening around it and not because a change has been made. And we do have that print out from the properties appraiser that we can share with everyone with that response. So no, our changing of it going from office to single family will not change its value based off of what we're doing.

Okay. Just a couple other things. Were there I don't remember which slide it was, but are any of the single family homes um do they when it comes to driveways, do they have to back out onto the main street? The reason why we're changing this to single family is because they face inside of a neighborhood. They are not on Blue Heron. They are not on Blue Heron. They're inside of a neighborhood. So, they're backing onto 27th Street, onto 25th Street. They're inside of a neighborhood. So, we want to keep that neighborhood a neighborhood as opposed to having it somewhere something else that can turn into some type of business or whatnot.

Okay. Thanks, Chair. I have a question. Yes. So, going back to the 25th and 27th, for the businesses that are already there, because we will be um or we'll be changing the the code, will they be allowed to expand or whatever their current operation is? They're pretty much locked into that. If there are any businesses that are already in there, those they they what is it called again? Grandfather. Yeah, grandfather. Yeah, they're non they're legally non-conforming at that point. So, it wouldn't for them it wouldn't matter for them. It would be future uses that are coming in have to be residential,

right? So if they wanted to do anything, you know, to expand their building or anything like that, it would not be blocked because now it has gone from office to uh single family residents. Thank you, I got a couple question. Yes, sir. Go ahead, Miss Hyman. Good evening and thank you so much for all the work you've done on behalf of the city and the comp plan and our residents. I got a couple of questions. I'm just worried that we use a mixed land use designation in an area where it's surrounded by single family homes.

Okay. So, we got to be very careful where we use that designation because you you got kids 25th 27th Street. Imagine if you would have designated that area instead of single residential units into a mixed use. So, we just got to be careful what what how we plan and where we plan. That's all I'm asking. How we plan it and and that's that's a very important that's very important aspect that you bring up.

The reason why we chose the areas that we chose was with that in mind. Um so there were areas that we only were only changing things were already office. They were already doing the same thing that this general mixed use is trying to do. So that part didn't matter. And then there were other areas that were just commercial in nature. Um some of them were commercial in nature and then you had um if I get closer to that there's one that's near it's on blue heron so it's near other homes but it's already commercial and it's already doing it's already supposed to be doing most of that anyways. Now we're allowing it to do both commercial and residential. So, we're allowing it to be able to have that residential feel and some of the amenities that a residential area would have at the same time. So, it's allowing it to do a little bit more than what it could when it was just straight commercial.

What's the uh height and the density on mixed use uh development uh properties? Now, do we do you know offand for mixeduse properties? Yeah. Is there a height? Go ahead, sir. Uh uh yes. So the mixed use that we have in the downtown areas um is between four and eight stories.

Okay, good. Because you definitely don't want a 15 or 20 story building uh on uh anywhere near where you don't have such uh monstrosities. Uh, and also I love what you our goals and objective and you know I've been number one since you started this smarter land use that is key when you're doing anything and working and coming back to us. smarter land use. And I'm glad they mentioned between four and eight stories because you don't want monstrosities. Correct. Uh take we did this last time on Broadway for instance. You do those monstrosities on Broadway and you got single family residents a block away. Right.

Right. Imagine the impact of that monstrosity on traffic on those side streets. So just think smart

and let's let's start working in on on that. I know we're not voting on anything tonight, but I'm just, you know, we're just giving you some some suggestions. Absolutely. Uh down the road. I know everybody loves restaurants. I know we've approved a few. I still haven't seen them six years later and I'm still waiting. So, I mean, it's a it's a great wish list. I'm hoping that when they come, developers come to unified uh your your your section there, they gear them in the right directions. And we have done it for the go-karts and everything in the industrial. We have amended certain codes to allow for go-karts and other items in an industrial zone. So, we've been amanable to that. Uh, and hopefully we'll be able to succeed.

This also sets us up just for you. Um, because yeah, we have been approving things that have been allow that that are trying to open doors and have more restaurants and all. One of the things that h what's part of our new plan that we're and I'm going to tote the new plan is that we have an economic section. Our economic section is that is supposed to help us so that way we now have a tool to go out to our community to say these are the ways that we are preparing to have I don't want to say shovel ready but we have these spaces ready that we can advertise and market our city. Um, so it's it's allowing us to get one more tool in our tool belt in order to do that and to say this is the areas that we have prepared. So that way you're able to do what you're wanting to do. You don't have to go through that long process that we did with the R1 Speedway in order to come in because now we have the space that's already set for you, right? So we are beefing up our tools to be able to do that. So that way it's they're not thinking it's going to take them a long drawn out process to come into our city to do just that.

Thank you. here. Don't forget open space. Absolutely. That's why I showed the one with the recreation. I know. I know what we're talking about. So, on that scenario, since we are the CRA, that property on Broadway and first I'm going to I'm going to have a motion to declare it as keep it as is. We have a little more, you know, murals there. You know which one I'm talking about. So, you know, we discussion discussion. Thank you, Miss Chair. Yes.

Uh Sen, I just asked a question. Um what is the basis of the recommendation um of removing the public school facilities element and changing that adding it to the community resource element. Mhm. Mhm. So since the plan was done, so the last plan was done in 2010 and back then we had a public school concurrency requirement that we had to do. Um and then since then the legislation has changed it where we no longer have that required concurrency. So most of that language is null and void now. So it's doesn't it doesn't need its own element any longer. And so now we have tucked it into our new element that we're adding in which is showing the different services that we as a city have. And so it's showing one this is how we as a city will continue to review when we have school plans come in to ensure that um that we're still reviewing that we have capacity. We're still reviewing that we have the the right fields that we can also colllocation do different things with the school board but we are not required but the school board is not required and and we are not required to review how we used to. It's a different type of review process that happens now that doesn't have to work it's not so much just on the facility but on the school itself in general and it's a it's a relationship that we've been building and forming with theart with the district um as a whole. Yeah, legislation killed it. trying to remember the year 2017 I I can't remember the year but it has changed but then our city has just adopted into the interlocal within this past year in order to recognize that change that has happened um

I'll have to go back and research that some more um and I can send you a lot of like because our because we just passed interlocal a few months ago so I can send you all that backup so that way it's easier reading just a little worried Because you know down in Broward they just announced today that they're closing down a lot of schools. So the schools Yes. And why is that? Um attendance attendance attendance is and I just want to make sure that's something that's not you know would happen here. So if you could send that. I can send that but I also want to remind you that the district is its own entity

and so those decisions are out of our hand but yeah I will send it to you. Thank you.

Are there any other questions by the board?

Mr. Chair. Yes. Um again, staff did send out uh mailers to each individual property that is subject to these proposed changes. Um and so to everyone in the audience, I know there was only one person uh that filled out a comment card. Uh this comprehensive plan and these changes are uh city initiated. Uh so this plan is intended to represent the desires of our community. So, if you have any remaining or unresolved questions or feedback that you want to give towards our comprehensive plan as we move towards potentially adopting it, we want you to just remain in contact with our department. Um, we were intentional about making sure you were notified about um things that will affect your property directly and we want to continue to stay engaged with you if you have future questions or concerns about what's happening with land use and the comprehensive plan that covers really all operations of the city. um but that we are here uh to serve you and the community. So u please get our contact information if need be uh before you leave here and uh don't hesitate to reach out to us.

And I also wanted to add in your letter I have gotten phone calls. So thank you for those that have called us. Um you have our phone number, you have our email address. I do ask that you go on the website if you're able to go on the website and I do ask you to come into our office. Um, I know I have I'm gonna do a print out for for one individual, but if you please come into our office, I would love to chat more and learn more um from your ideas and what your thoughts are. Sunny, just one one last thing. Can you go back to a slide that shows um an area that is currently residential that is being proposed uh for mixed use? We don't have an area that's currently residential,

mixed use. Okay. Um, well, can you go back to just one of the ones that we're proposing to change to mixed use? Okay. So, that's going from office to general mixed use. Then we have I just want you know for some of the people who are here so they kind of understand what mixed use means. you're doing it for the meaning of mixed use, right? Yes. Instead of um the ones that are being proposed um

we don't have any that are going from residential to to use. But just so they get a general idea of what that means like what sort of things or businesses or facilities are considered mixed use. So the goal of um our commercial or office to mixed use is that we're going instead of you just having sandwich shop uh I'm trying to think what would be there

hardware store ace hardware whatnot just there we're also allowing you to have other uses around it so that way the idea is that this is this is the idea the idea is that we're going from I can go from the shop and I'm going to turn around and I'm going to be able to sit down and sit on the green. Um, so now I don't have to have the subway shop right here and then I have to walk a couple blocks to get to the park. Now the park would be right next to me, right? Oh, now I've been sitting here. Let me go and I don't know, get my haircut. It's all in this area. Let's We're pretending that this area has all these amenities. The area on the right is one of my favorite places to visit. Um, like I told you, it's in Georgia. We love going there because we can pick up our we can pick up our sandwiches. We take the kids to play. We can visit a friend. We have a couple friends that live in the homes that's literally around the park, right? And then afterwards, we pick up dinner. We turn in something important that my sister always seems to have to turn in in that same area. And then we go about our business. It's all in one area. as opposed to cutting across town to go from this spot to this spot to my house all the way over here. That's the idea. We're mixing it. We're allowing it to do more on one property as opposed to having to do it the industrial over here and the commercials over here and the house is over here. We're trying to make it in one area to make it more flexible of a use for everyone.

Sure. Tony, can you go back to the diagram? Was that the Ocean Mall on Singer Island? You were That arrow was pointing to Was there a Right. Go back. Not the other one. Right before. Right before. There was an Right there. Is that No. What? Okay. I thought that was looked like the Ocean Mall. You know when you're doing the curve going into Singer Island? Okay. That whole area is considered office where the gas station is. Gas station's across, isn't it? North side on the north side of the street. The white office building the white office building on the north side of North. The restaurant was supposed to go in four or five years ago. Exactly. Exactly.

Yes. We're still waiting on that restaurant. So that that right now is what is it designated as now? Office right now. So you want to do it? General. General mixed use. It's it's pretty much what inspired general mixed use because we were doing a lot of changes to allow that to do what it does and then we're like well why are we just going to leave it to just that little corner and also that other little blip that's on Blue Heron. Why not put it in other areas that are commercial that are kind of needing a little boost as well. Yeah. Because I thought we had they had come before us as developers and we gave them exemptions exactly to do what we're doing now anyway and they never did anything with it. Right. So Okay. Just just thought it out. Yeah, they were the inspiration.

Yeah, time flies. We having fun. Timeline, brother. Thank you, chair. Just one thing. Um, great job. Great job. Um, are there any other questions by the board? Yes. We totally didn't see where the voice was coming from. everyone where [laughter]

I'm very simple. Um I did receive a couple of calls today um and um some of the residents went to Riviera 20 240 and were unable to print out the uh this presentation. Um the same thing by one of the audience members. Correct. So we'll go back and try to figure out what happened. It's just a blank page. A lot of blank pages. Hm. We'll figure out what happened and then we'll repost it tomorrow. Yeah. And you couldn't download. It was impossible to download anything even if you didn't want to print it out.

I don't know what h I don't know. Yeah. So, we'll we'll go back from the wait on the 2040 page or onto the the 2040 or I went to 2040. I couldn't do I just got a blank a lot of blanks. So, when you went on 2040, did you actually see? Yes, I could see it, but when I was ready to print it out, it was just a lot of blank pages. Oh, okay. I'll find out what happened. I don't know what happened. Yeah, that's it's through our consultant, um, Kevin Jano. So, we'll reach out to them and they're on the line actually. I think Graham is somewhere in the building. Um, but I think he hears you and we'll fix that tonight and have that done. Right. And then one question for Mr. Evans.

I'll check it. Um, did you you sent out a letter that there was something removed from the meeting tonight? Was it 7B or what was removed? It was an actual comp plan reviewing the comp plan as a board. All right. Thanks. Okay. Um, before you leave, sir, I'd like to thank the residents for coming out and everything. And is there I know we asked for feedback on some of the information I was here and I noticed some of the people were listening but at this point here would it be okay if someone has some ideas or whatever because that's what we here for to get some ideas. This is this time this is the time for it right this is the time for it.

So does anyone have any questions or any suggestions or anything would you like to come up to the mic and speak? Oh wait that's not what I meant. [laughter] Yes sir.

Good evening.

Sorry I didn't get a chance to fill out the uh card there. Uh I was kind of confused coming. Okay. Um, I can understand a lot of people stay on 25th and 27th when they got this got kind of excited. Uh, but the young lady, she came and she explained it and uh, it was very clear. But I would advise if you can get more information out, tell them what happened in this meeting and then explain the mix single family to let them know because just like the young lady who uh talked about eminent domain when they got this, that's what everybody thought about.

Absolutely. Matter of fact, I was at work and my wife called me about 7:30 in the morning. They're taking our house. Okay. So, maybe send this out. Explain what it's all about because uh if that single families is not designated, then later on in the future, somebody come in and then they can put a business in the middle of your neighborhood. Right. All right. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you.

All right. Are there any other I appreciate it. Thanks for coming up and um thank you for clarifying that information. Um do we have any questions? Any followup? Thank you for the information. Um and yes, we were limited on space, so I I apologize that it caused any type of hysterics. Um I'll make the words bigger so that way um it's seen. So thank you for the information. Yes.

Um Sen, are there any additional community meetings that are going to be held or are you guys pretty much done with meetings as it pertains to the three years later we're tired. I know. I know. I was just wondering. No. Um this was this was um part of the opportunities rest of engagement can be done one- on-one. Okay. Um giving us a call. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. Okay.

So, are we on to workshop items now? We have are uh Mr. Chair, no workshop items. Do we have any public comments? Yes, sir. Mr. Chair, we have a public comment card from Miss Margaret Shepard. Yes. Margaret Shepard to the chair and vice chair. Now, you knew I was coming home. You already knew that. Absolutely. You knew I wasn't going to miss this. But happy birthday to your mother. Thank you.

My mentor, my best friend, very quiet lady, but I'll tell you, rattle her case, she got you. Very nice lady. Very nice. and the string. I did not know you were on planning and zoning. Congratulations, young lady. And of course, Marie, congratul But anyway, congratulations. Um, I'm here today because I hear Mr. Fernandez always talk about hiring within and I tried not to say nothing but I went over to his villa leant or whatever it is in front of the boys and girls club. I think Ezra Sapo has that has that property. Now you said hire within and I I don't have nothing to do so I'm checking the um some of the projects. I saw nothing but other people. We were not there. Now we we were and I I and then someone today start talking about it and they literally went off. They said um none of us was over there and it's true. If you are going to make these rules and I think you made the rule and I didn't say nothing the rules with the gentleman, you are not having them enforced. If you're going to look out for Rivier Beach residents, I think it should be a code that somebody go out there and check. From the day they brought the cement till the day about four or five days when the buildings went up, I was mortified. I mean, I was right in the street just like I can't believe this. They were doing the roof and I guess I I I sat there so long the guy looked at me and knocked over. I said, I'm just here looking. And uh this is not acceptable

in the city of Riviera Beach. All the projects is going up and I I declare I hope and I pray that as you sit there and make out the R doing a great job. You make out the rules and regulations. It should be a force. I mean go by there now build they're building right now. Just take time. I know they shut down very early and I know you work I don't know about if they're working Saturday or Sunday but I will tell you one thing not one of us was out there thank you very much

Mr. Evans, is there anybody from our section checking up on these work projects? Remember, when they stood up here, they agreed to the conditions of the site development. When they went to city council, they agreed to the conditions set forth on the site for their approval to build. Does Unified Development have any Can they go out to the sites just to mosey around, talk to the developer, the general contractor, and see what's going on? Is that is that a possibility? Uh, Mr. Chair.

Yes. Our building inspectors are in the area on a regular basis. if they have building permits um on a project of that complexity, then there's building permit inspectors uh who have various inspections at all the different progress points. So, there's staff there likely um at least several times a week, if not every day. So, why can't they ask? Are you you you you got the site approval based on you know the hiring or the possibility of hiring Riviera Beach residents and local contract local vendors. Are you doing that? Simple question. Can they do that? Can they ask Mr. Chair if I may?

Yes sir. Um we there is a uh admittedly gap in the enforcement of such a condition. Um we don't have a ordinance of the city that requires it. If there are situations such as um our bonus exchange program, Mihawk, where in exchange for additional density and height for your building, you have to hire local and minorities and contribute to affordable housing. That's an ordinance that obligates them to do that and we set up a contract with them that establishes the penalties if they don't do it. The majority of our de developments are by right. Uh so um the project that was here this um this evening um the zoning already says they can do what's proposed there and unless we have something in the laws of the city that require them to hire locally it's a um voluntary obligation that they engage in and if they don't follow through with a good faith effort on that we are very limited in what we could do uh to them. In the cases of Mihop, when we have a contract, they're in breach of contract if they don't meet their minority employment thresholds. And each contract is different, but sometimes there's a financial penalty. Um there's other legal mechanisms the city can utilize um because they breached their contract. But in these situations, these are by right developments and we don't have the um the legal um tools to force them to do it. Um it is voluntary.

Okay. So they're agreeing like they do every time they stand up here to the conditions we set forth. They went to go to city council and that same they agreed to the same agreement. You're telling me we have no bite with legal for them to backtrack on the agreements they made in order to get that site application and that job approved. to some extent they are in violation of their site plan resolution that has that condition. It's a contract. Yes. Um how we can enforce that voluntary item I think is a challenge but I don't know if um our legal council has any um thoughts on that but

contract and I'm I'm glad we have legal here. Is it a contract? Couple of different options. One is code enforcement. Obviously they're violating an agreement that they made and not following our code. We could always look at a potential breach of contract. We have to corre but there there are remedies. You don't just close your eyes and say, "Oops, you got away with it." No,

I I know there I know that I know we have legal remedies, but what I'm hearing is we don't. Yes, we do. So, my humble suggestion would be get together with legal because these are binding. These are this is a contract. So I would suggest your your section get together with legal because this is a contract with the developer and maybe have code enforcement when they go out there start asking questions. Yes, it is a contract. So if you need any further legal clarification, our attorney will be more offline. You don't have to. But we do have a contract with them. Every one of those developers that agreed to those conditions, there is a binding contract. Whether they like it or not, it is a binding contract. They agreed here. They agreed city council and based on the agreements, they have a contractual obligation to follow through on the agreements. Yes, m

Mr. Chair, my just might make a comment. Although I appreciate the board's focus, I don't think we have any proof at this point or something, some report or some analysis that would suggest the contractors uh behaving in any inappropriate way.

We're not saying they are. What I'm saying is I've been on this board a little over six years and we've had this since I've been on this board and I haven't seen any reports yet from any developer. So, how's that? Would that be okay? So, I know you're working on it. So, why don't we start maybe by January and February get these reports in. Six years in counting I've been on this board and I know I suggested that maybe a month after uh I was on this board. So, it's been on here for a couple of years. I'm sure some of those developers already received a certificate of occupancy. Some, not all. So, can we work on that? As far as that, we also have code enforcement that can go out there and verify this with the project uh de uh contractors, the general contractors that are out there now. They can ask what's it doesn't do any harm. And if they're not doing it, then we go back to legal. They get paid the big bucks. I'm sure they love billing. And then we just go back to the contract to bill them. But anyway, that's my own humble two cents worth. Hopefully we'll get a report next year on where all these reports have been for the last couple of years and we move on with our lives. Thank you so much,

Mr. Chair. If I may, the we did provide a status update on all the projects that had that condition maybe two months ago. uh and the there were um the majority of them have not um reached the point of being six months post um certificate of occupancy. I think there were uh two that have and one that was um very close uh to to um having the CO for us to fill um to follow up with them. Uh but we did provide that uh report out to that um to this board about two months ago and um as a result of that we did reach out to um a couple of those developments that were close to get that status update. Um and we will just program in a a near future agenda to give another update on that but we did recently provide that report.

I think Berkeley Landing was missing as well and I I Berkeley Landing was also missing. You were going to address that. So, there were a couple of missing from that small list. There were a couple missing. So, Mr. Evans was working on it if I remember correctly. Uh, yes, Mr. Chair, we we did miss that one. Yes. If I may, Mr. Chair. Yes, Mr. Fernandez, we did miss. Yes, sir. And just just look into in case something else fell through the cracks. I know you guys are super super busy, but we do promise our citizens that that's what we're here for, to make sure we uh do what we got to do. Appreciate it. Thank you very much for your consideration. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Absolutely. Chair. Yes.

Uh Mr. Sherman, is is there any way that we can get this process done before we give them final approval? Which process is that, Mr. Chair, if I may? Yes. Which process are you referring to? Them giving us a report of who they have working for them, the contractors. Is there any way that we can get them to give us a report before they get final? [clears throat]

Typically, um, not, you know, being a developer myself, but in most cases, they have not hired, um, persons for the project yet because it's not a real project until council approves it. And so once they have that approval, then they generally mobilize to the next phase which is getting their financing in order and then starting construction contract or hiring contractors and things like that. In most cases, they would not have those partnerships um in um in Inc. uh when they come uh to this body. But um but based on the questions this evening, you know, we can talk it over with um our our staff and legal to see um how we can better monitor and u provide reporting on it. But um at the moment generally we wouldn't expect them to have that kind of uh information or contracts. What what is the final stage before they do the uh let people start moving in? What is that final stage to where we can get a report from them before we give them the okay to say okay you can start letting people move in

before people can move in. It's usually that certificate of occupancy. Okay. So, can we get a report from them before that before they request the certificate of occupancy? Can they provide the or before we give it to them?

This is something we'll have to look into. We we'll we'll have to check on it. the the CO is based on the Florida building code, which is state law, and I'm not sure that it would be legal for us to withhold um that certificate if they've met all the obligations of the building code based on something not related to the building code. Um but again, bringing the building official into the conversation is something that we can do to um explore what options we have. Okay. Thank you. Chair. Yes. I just um as a newbie, I think asking for a report six months after occupancy is just not realistic, right?

Um it's just to me and I and I know this was already done. Um so I have a few things. One, because it's not law, it I don't want to make it seem like we're forcing someone's hand to do something. Maybe there could be a volunteer agreement or something like that because if it's not a law, we technically can't not enforce anything up on someone because they verbally said, "Yep, that sounds like a good idea. We're going to do it." And the flip side of that, they may have tried to do it, but may not have a viable candidate to do contractual work. I mean, the workforce has changed drastically. And if you look at people's resumes or their reviews or their references and it don't meet the requirement that the developer needs, we don't want to twist their hand and say they got to do it. But I think that all of this requires a little overhaul. But to say ask somebody something after they've done it, I mean, what are you going to do? [laughter] It's done.

And if if I may, Mr. Sure. When this originally came up, it wasn't necessarily in the context and and this is my understanding from the staff side of the table. It wasn't in the context of construction jobs. It was businesses that were coming into the city that would be considerable employers. And so after the business opens, make making sure you recruit Riviera residents to be the employees at this business. Initially, it wasn't assigned to residential developments such as this. um targeting construction jobs. So at that point, six months postco made sense as a time point to make sure that once this business opens that you are um giving Riviera residents a first opportunity or actively recruiting them for the the permanent jobs associated with the businesses. It looks like we're moving more towards forcing it on construction as well, which requires a kind of rethinking and reworking of what we're doing here. So, um, if that's the desire of the board, we can look into that and rethink it. But initially, it was, um, targeting permanent jobs that were being brought into the city.

Mr. sermons. Uh chair,

I brought that proposal up and the way I spelled it out and I should have a record of it and you would have a record of it was to make sure that when these contractors and developers came in to our city that they employed our local individuals for those contracting jobs. In addition to that, they contract our local vendors, our plumbing suppliers, our electrical suppliers, and any other suppliers we have within the city because they also hire local. So, it was kind of a benefit to the city and our citizens that when a developer comes in, they would they would try their best. Yes, you're absolutely correct. And we did mention that at the beginning that if a developer h has an uh advertises through the city with the job fair programs, we mentioned the job fairs as well. If they advertise for 30 electricians and Riviera Beach only had one, we can't expect them to fill 30 spots. So, we knew that. But at least the the the attempt was let's just make sure that they try their best through job fairs, advertisement, city [snorts] involvement to hire local. If there's no local, then we can't fault them. But if we don't ask them, have you tried or let me see a list of everybody that applied for the job? We don't need the names, generics, or anything else involving it. Riviera Beach resident, yes or no. So that way we get to see get an idea of are they are they at least sharing the wealth with our city. That was the whole intent that we pushed this through. Uh and I haven't had a developer yet come before said no I don't agree to that but we

were very amanable that we know like like board members said changing uh fluctuations in the employment market but at least we stay on top of them to remind them you promised this you agreed to this have you done it have you done the job fairs have you contacted anybody that in the city you have a major development and I haven't seen one job fair. So that's that's all I'm asking for and that's all this board originally did back in the day when we passed this. So that way we know that they're working with the city on job fairs and we did extend it to major. We're not doing for single residences or the the gentleman on blue heron who came before us that wanted to build the four two family units there that still hasn't done anything with the property yet. But, you know, we're not talking about that. We're talking about developments. 32 units, 40 units, 50 units, 150 units, major projects. But anyway, I'll leave it at that. I'm not going to go into too much, but that was the whole intent of pushing this way back when, but thank you, sir. Thank you, chair.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Um, so that was the correspondence. Um, part C. Well, first of all, does anyone else has any any other correspondence? Yes. I have one quick question. Yes, ma'am. How many um projects are proposed for the for the military trail in general speaking um in the Leo Lane area? There none or several or uh Mr. Chair? I guess we're not. Is this question related to the comprehensive plan conversation? No, I just wanted to know. Oh, okay. I Yeah. Cool.

I think maybe there's uh two active projects right now. And how how big I mean how many trips do does it how many cars? I'm I'm sorry I don't have that info uh handy. That's okay. I'll I'll give you Okay. All right. So, let's go and wrap it up. The C planning and zoning board um up and cominging planning zoning board meeting January 15, 2026. That verified? Yes. Yes. All right. That's it. So, do we have a motion for adjournment? Chair, I motion that we adjourn the meeting.

8:44 p.m. Merry Christmas to all. Happy holiday.