Planning and Zoning Board - Regular Meeting

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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About this meeting

Government Body
Planning and Zoning Board
Meeting Type
Planning And Zoning Board
Location
Punta Gorda, FL
Meeting Date
April 15, 2026

Transcript

38 sections (from 48 segments)

2:39 – 3:370

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3:37 – 4:080

Right. signing assignment.

4:05 – 5:410

Okay. Oh my gosh. What does she want? I was expecting the same I'm like, "Yes, I was right there. realiz was getting

5:43 – 6:020

how you I'm make sure Did you send the PDF version?

6:20 – 6:390

Okay, great. Oh, I thought I thought public works said it's not for that.

6:42 – 7:320

So, when I look at it really quick, which I had separately and I was like I surge of the two feet. I'm sorry. I thought of it backwards.

7:32 – 9:320

Yeah, that's It's kind of hard to see. The staking on agendum. I didn't understand already, right?

9:35 – 11:220

station about the regulations. Is that pretty? Good afternoon everyone. It is now 4:00 in the afternoon on Wednesday, April 15th, uh, right here in Lashley's community room. We'll start out with the roll call.

11:22 – 11:470

Janine F. Greg, Julian, Janice Denton, Melissa Locker. Fantastic. Next, we're going to do the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

11:47 – 12:200

I generally always ask any veterans in the room to please stand to be recognized. Thank you for your service and our freedom. Our next meeting is actually going to be tomorrow night 5 to 7 on land development regulations and it's actually going to be at Life Celebration Center on US 41. Does everybody know where that is? Great place. Okay, so we're going to open up to public comment. Our next meeting is actually Anybody wishing to speak, please state your name and you'll begin in three minutes.

12:31 – 13:060

Good afternoon. Uh Derek Rooney Isles. Um I think I'm the same as everybody else here. really looking forward to see what the uh report has and and hoping that uh there's a something some silver lining to to do something to fix these problems. Thank you, Derek. Anybody else? Well, with no one else coming up, we're going to go right into our workshop. So, you want to do are you gonna do the introduction? Awesome.

13:02 – 13:320

Thank you. Anybody else? Good afternoon everyone. I'm Brian Clemens. I'm the city engineer. I'm just going to do a brief introduction and then we'll uh we'll follow my short presentation with a presentation from our consultant. Um so we're here today. This is one of uh one of two public meetings to keep keep you all informed of where we are with the progress on this project. Um,

13:33 – 14:160

just so if everyone isn't familiar, I uh this map up here, this is the primary area that we're focused on. So, you're basically at Mod Street over near Fisherman's Village. Along the south, you're kind of uh our linear trail to the railroad tracks and then it follows Cooper Street up to the harbor with the harbor forming the uh north side of the project area street. I just want to bring up a couple key points. You know, this is just a an update to keep you informed. Right now, we are at the um we're performing the existing model and

14:14 – 14:320

we are I want to remind everyone the intent of this study is to evaluate rainfall and elevated tidal events. This isn't uh your surge events like you saw with Debbie, Idelia, Helen, Milton.

14:30 – 15:270

You know, uh think of you, we've had some pretty um intense rainfalls just recently. Um and what we're looking for, one of the things we're really looking for from you all is if you have any photos um that you can provide. Uh later on, we'll provide a an email address you could send those to. Um You know, ideally we would like to we need to know the location of it. Um the date if you know the rainfall um any information you can provide photos or video. I put this little photo on there because you know even though that was after one of the recent storms there's no water in that photo but you can see that that uh vegetation that rack line of debris and that helps. Um, I provided that to Kimley Horn and they can look at that in their model and to try to the goal right now is to calibrate the existing model before we start looking for answers. So,

15:27 – 15:480

with that being said, I'm just going to turn it over to Kelly Clark of uh Kimley Horn to run through their presentation. Um, after we get through that, we can have some public comment and uh get any uh information that you all may have. turn it over to Clark.

15:56 – 17:530

All right. My name is Kelly Clark. I'm with Kimley Horn. I'm a professional engineer. I specialize in uh storm water uh improvement projects. So, just like this one. And I'm going to talk a little bit about our scope just to understand where we're at in the process. specialize in water. I'm going to talk a little bit about our scope where we're at right now. So that led to ancess If you're looking at it for us, we want to make sure toward What are improvements downtown

18:06 – 20:030

with those options as well as the benefits? so that we can benefit. And then from there We'll have a final report. Second And I do want to assist me. So this is a storm water model's overc information.

20:08 – 22:010

All of that information together in the model. building up and then as occurs 24 hours of kind of the idea of And so that helps us alternatives alternatives. So I do want to ground it. Florida, the light brown, the yellow bottom right area. There's the middle

22:05 – 23:510

and that's something that water Sometimes we can't improve all condition. So in terms of the model we're looking at 25 years 24 hours of that event occurring every Everybody only% chance.

24:02 – 26:020

We also are looking at different Yeah. So our model endwhere. connect. So title is high. And so there's a low very occurring, but the watering system isn't there. Not

26:09 – 28:060

That's occurring. All right. So then these are standput our model. So what you see here is the year 24hour ground. So you're like one thing I want to home. They were hiding.

28:19 – 29:490

So darker I can't actually So that's really where we're at currently. Again, what we'll be using for moving forward is looking at potential solutions and at any welcome photos. showing up in good or

30:39 – 32:190

Yeah. So, and I do want to finan. forward. When you raise up right now, are alcohol. Right.

32:42 – 34:260

No, it's not. What I will outside That's all. Yeah, definitely. We know

34:51 – 36:500

during the whole want So this is premature massive It will be in the long run. That would be all you meas all the data. I was really impressed last less than an hour.

36:50 – 38:370

But I went to a meeting and by the time I came out to work, I know they're talking about I don't know. direct. So naturally is that area.

38:53 – 40:190

And yeah, lots that water everything. It's a number.

40:53 – 41:190

Um, I do want to While we're showing this area, we did this area and make sure

52:22 – 54:220

I was just component. And then the third I think away. I was not expecting today, but these are two rattling on the last year or so and I'm starting to hear a presentation more concept

54:25 – 56:210

as well and I think I'm hearing the words I guess getting getting But I just like to add a couple things to that. I was really going to pass this along for my opportunity. You know, we do have a lot of land out there in the area. The opportunity for us to utilize that I always hate. We have an emergency situation. I think with our severe damage year after year and this is keeping down. It is an emergency situation. This for the question. I can't help but think that we now have a good writer and put together a course. We don't take away emergency situations. very opportunity might be coming together for us to provide landcess.

56:34 – 58:280

I hope that we can Maybe look at the opportunity today. And so down the water out of the city. quality typically over a lot very small. So that's where I just want to

58:36 – 1:00:260

I'm not I just wanted to clarify So I mean that's a very I guess in terms of The more you have the lesser system very high. That's kind of what In terms of really

1:00:36 – 1:02:340

something Yeah. Water quality. That kind of looking at Water I would say whatever.

1:02:44 – 1:04:330

A lot of understood by the Everyone period. something that we want. two lane road. One way That'll be helpful to us because we can understand.

1:05:13 – 1:07:070

right now. So I think Not speech. Where am I?

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very7. We're looking as well. Thank you so much.

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