Remarks by Alan Clendenin
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“Just making sure people understand that. Okay.”
“Yeah, we'll make sure that happens. I've got a big note on REV next to the motion. Very good. Okay. That concludes your presentation? Yes.”
“Okay. You'll have an opportunity for rebuttal if something else comes up. Thank you. Is there anybody in the public who wishes to speak to this item? Okay. Hearing none, assuming you won't have it. Okay. So you don't have a rebuttal for nothing. Yeah. No rebuttal. Okay. Very good. I have a motion close to councilman Mascotco, second councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?”
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“Thank you. I have a motion from councilman Carlson, second councilman Maniscalco roll call for please.”
“Thank you. One of these days I'll make it over there to check out the restaurant. I'm looking forward to it one day.”
“Yeah, that's what I hear. Very good. Take care. Bye-bye. Okay, next, item number three.”
“Council, any questions? Hearing none, next.”
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“Council have any questions? I do. I don't have any problem with the compatibility issue, and obviously it is more densely populated, but accommodating the vehicles. The garage is fine, but the driveway is only 18 feet, 18 plus inches, and it seems like there's an awful lot of vehicles that are in the 19-foot range. Doesn't that automatically build in an overhang, which is really... epidemic in South Tampa of cars overhanging driveways and blocking access to other folks. What is the condition of that alley that you have access to in the back? What does that look like? How wide is it? How is…”
“Yes. The front side is the one that's not? Yes. The back side is 22 by 22. Okay, so the front side. So if you have an overhead showing, is it a sidewalk that's right there? In other words, if you have a 19-foot or 20-foot vehicle, are you going to be overhanging onto a sidewalk?”
“Okay, that's the alley side. So let's look at the Fremont side. You have the single car garages, then you're going to accommodate one car in the driveway, correct? Because you had to accommodate two cars per unit?”
“Okay, so one is only 18 feet long. Where's the sidewalk there? Is that 18 feet to the sidewalk to the front of the building?”
“You see, I mean, I wish it almost would have come with a triplex. And I mean, do we ask for a triplex there and then at least have the accommodations of the vehicles? But I mean, because again, this is one of the biggest problems we have there is vehicles overhanging on the sidewalks of pedestrians, bicyclists and whatnot are encountering vehicles.”
“Well, full size, good thing you're not sitting up here making a decision about what to worry about.”
“Yeah, but 18 feet, we have a lot of vehicles out there that are in the 19-foot range, correct?”
“Well, you're asking for a PD to build three units on a single family lot in an area that we have really big problems with vehicles and parking, people parking and blocking driveways, people parking and blocking sidewalks. It's a multi-family zoning lot, it's nice. But currently you're converting from a single family, you're putting a lot on one lot. And I could actually see where this would be problematic with vehicles hanging over onto the sidewalk.”
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“Correct. Well, again, it's PD. I mean, there's a whole lot of things that are exceptions here.”
“I mean, you hit it right off the hat when you first came up talking about the driveways and the parking has been a big issue, especially in this neighborhood. I mean, it's real problematic in this neighborhood. Parking is problematic. We have a lot of problems in this area.”
“We've got a 22-foot garage, so that's good. Yeah, they can put that in there. 22 by 22 is a good garage. So the garage in that first unit is a great-sized garage. Again, time and time again, especially our walk-by-tampa folks come in here swinging and batting for pedestrian safety and sidewalks, and we see it all the time. And I'll be honest with you, I live in a place that's got a short driveway, and we have the same issues. My place was built in 1980, and it's problematic. So I live with it every single day, the garage widths and the length of driveways.”
“So then they end up parking on the street window. Bingo. That's the part of the problem.”
“So you end up parking on the street, creating street parking problems. That's the problem.”
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“See, that's why I'm looking at this. I'm thinking, because you're in a multi-family area. I mean, it seems like this would be right for a triplex. I mean, hell, if you just get you bigger units, too.”