Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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Okay. I'd like to call to order this meeting of the Planning Commission for 02/03/2026. Could I have a roll call please?

Mr. Snyder.

I am here. Mr. Wilson.

I am here.

Mr. Hale.

I'm here.

Ms. Sherberg. Here. Mr. McKeon. Here. Mr. Young. Here. And Mr. Jasper? Here.

Thank you. I've got a set of minutes from January 20. Do I have a motion or any suggested revisions? Mr. Chairman? Yes, Mr. Wilkes.

I move that we accept the 01/20/2026 regular meeting minutes as presented.

Thank you. Do have a second? Second. Thank you. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Chair was aye. Looking out, but I

think I know the answer to

the question, but do we have anyone for general audience participation today?

No, we do not.

Okay, very good. First up then is two petitions associated with Venice Isle. Can we run these together?

Yes, you can.

Okay, very good. Thank you. So the first one is a design alternative petition number 2555DA and the second one is a site and development plan petition number 25-13SP. Staff is Britney Smith. The agent is Becca Saldazy.

Close. And

the applicant owner is Venice Isle LLC. Both are quasi judicial hearings. I have memorandums that says this is to certify that the public hearing for this petition was appropriately advertised on 01/17/2026 as required by the City of Venice Land Development Code and proof of publication is on file in the planning and zoning office. Let me open the hearing and allow the attorney to question board members regarding ex parte communications and potential conflicts of interest.

If anyone has a possible conflict of interest, let's disclose that at this time. I see no heads. So if you've had any ex parte communications regarding either of these petitions that are not currently part of the record, disclose those. Sorry, Mr. Jasper.

Site visit only. Only. Site visit Site visit no communication.

Site visit only.

Site visit only.

None. Thank you. Okay. Hi.

Good afternoon. Let

me turn to Britney then.

Okay. Britney Smith for the record, planner, City of Venice. I have filled out a speaker's card. Today we're here, I'm gonna start with the site development plan first if that's okay to give a better context before we get into design alternative. So this is the site development plan petition number 2513SP for Venice Isle. Agent is Becca Seldes of B Design LLC and the owner applicant is Venice Isle LLC. The address for this property is 256 Nokomis Avenue South. The request is to construct a new three story multi use building. The parcel size is approximately zero point Mr. 37

Clark may I have something to say? Yeah, time out. We just realized that the wrong date was sent to the applicant that's why he's not here today. So I assume we could continue this.

So the publications are correct, it's just the date that went to him?

I believe the publications are correct. I don't have it in front of me but the wrong date was sent to him on email.

Okay, so let's assume the publications are accurate then yes we need to continue this. If you could just make a motion to continue to the next meeting. We won't need to advertise we'll just make sure we have the right information sent to the applicant.

I'd

like to move that we postpone this meeting and push it to the next meeting.

Which is February 0 what, seventeenth? Seventeenth.

February to be reviewed at February 17 meeting.

Do I have a second? I'll second that. Thank you. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed?

Okay. I was wondering what

we were going to do without an applicant.

Well, there you go. Sorry about that. We apologize. Had a staff error but

Okay. City Attorney, do we need to do that for each of the hearings or just?

We had them both open so I'll consider that a motion for both items. Thank you.

Thank you. Roger, anything from the Planning and Zoning Department today?

Well, yeah, I think I probably have something to say. Didn't plan on saying Well, we're here. You might as well take a few Bob is looking for something to write about. Yeah, I assume. We do have petitions on the next meeting. There's a couple of them on the next meeting which is on the seventeenth and now we have a couple more it looks like. So we will certainly confirm that the applicant that we didn't have today is available for that next meeting. But we do have other applications on that hearing. Mr. Schneider, I think today was supposed to be your last planning commission meeting.

No, I think the next one is. I'm good until February, the February.

Okay. All right. And I

don't know, maybe they know is planning commission replacements on the agenda for the tenth?

Yes. It is on the agenda to be discussed.

Okay. Yes. And yes, you'll be doing the report that day. So I would hope that your fan club comes and They

never let me leave home without them.

Participate so that would be good. Other than that, I don't think I have well, I can tell you that we did have our initial meeting with the Seaboard consultants and the technical working group went very well. The consultants are actively working on the technical plan for that first phase which like I said before is more of a technical plan. It's more of getting down to the street level and doing things like so doing the technical aspect so it's not gonna be quite as public driven as the last time because we had to shred and all that to get the master plan. This will involve the technical working group.

There probably will be some public outreach but it's more of the what are we gonna do at ground level in this location. So they're coming up with some really neat ideas. I have met with the consultants after the meeting and they've kind of shown me what they're looking at. Mostly, you know, this is gonna just deal with that new street that they proposed. They call it John Nolan Street.

I'm hoping we may be able to keep that street name although unfortunately the county has a Nolan Drive or something out off of East Venice Avenue which I'm not real happy about because they're gonna tell us that they don't want us to use anything Nolan. Well, sorry. We will anyway. If the city chooses to go that direction. So it's mainly that street design which they are looking to make this one of the best streets ever.

And then also the seaboard section adjacent to where the city property is will get hopefully maybe that section designed as well. So I think those two items would be a really good catalyst for further development in that area. We also as far as our facilities, we're out of there. Our fleet and solid waste have moved to the new location. So that's just a blessing.

So we're in good shape. So that's where we stand with that. That's the applicant. We'll let him know he's continued. So that's all I have, Mr. Schneider.

Okay. Any questions of Roger?

No. Any

comments from commission members today? Hearing none, we're adjourned.