Design Review Board - Regular Meeting

Good morning. Mr. Kramer, is this house for you or is this for speculation?

For you and your family? Okay. Let me say that I happen to like the house. Thank you. The only one problem. You have a right to build on this property as long as you can meet all the land development code and all the code requirements, and you do not. And I'm specifically more concerned with those trees that your arborist even indicated number three and number 29. Those trees will not survive six years based on the proximity to the house, based on what's going to have to happen, and the fact that you will have to cut the canopy in order to be able to put your roof on this home. Now, you have t

Excellent choice. I mean, I love bay rum trees from that aspect. They're expensive. That's the other thing that I noticed on the landscape architects planting chart. And let me explain something the difference. When you are taking out trees, and you measure what is called DBH at four and a half feet, and that's where your where your measure. from the perspective of mitigation. But when you're planting new trees, you actually measure from the ground up from six to 12 inches. So in other words, when you have a tree like he has here, 12 feet high, six foot spread with a DBH of two and a half inch

Just read the codes, sir. That's all he has to do, read the codes and follow the codes.

Board Member Lopez. Um, no, I would say aesthetically, uh, it, it is, uh, you know, the, the layout of the house is different. Um, I, you know, I, I, I liked, uh, the, the open entry and I liked the continuous pool on the back. I would say the same thing other than the issue with the trees and the, uh, and the, uh, the, the drain field location. Um, I don't, I don't have an issue, um, with this house, uh, aesthetically per se.

I'll make a motion for defer. And unfortunately, Mr. Kramer, in the past, we were able to approve the architecture and then have the landscape come back. But today, it's not that way. Either you approve all of it or none of it. So I'm requesting for a deferment with the comments that have been made by staff, I mean, by staff and board members.

um okay and then uh our next meeting will be uh somebody give me the date it's an august next meeting is tuesday august 4th 2026 at 8 30 a.m excellent we'll see you all here danny wait a minute before we close off very quickly i want to make a quick assignment uh staff uh please review the landscape codes one more time there are issues in there