Architectural Review Board - Regular Meeting

First

item is approval of the minutes. Does anyone have any edits or comments to the January 29 ARB meeting?

Kelly, I was just questioning, article nine or paragraph nine, comments from the public, none. But yet we thanked miss Capone for her public comments.

So her comment was done during the item. It wasn't during the public comment time. So that was at the very end.

That's one. Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

Sure. Do we have a motion?

I'm making a motion to approve.

I'll second.

All those in favor?

Aye.

All those opposed? Motion carries. Okay. There I don't see sir, are you there for the color modulation? Okay. So never mind. Swearing in as speakers. If you plan on speaking tonight, please raise your right hand. Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth? Yes.

You're sworn in. Thank you. The first item of business, we do have someone on Zoom right now that got stuck in Boston. It's an architect for K Park. So in order to allow them to participate in the meeting, there has to be a motion, and it has to be approved by the board. So do we have a motion to allow the speaker to participate via Zoom? Kelly?

No, they're connected. Okay.

I know, I need to, they need to motion Her microphone

is off.

Oh, Maria, you have to put your mic. Is it on?

I think we had the same issue last night, but I think under the circumstances typically, don't allow remote call ins, but under unusual circumstances, I think there's exceptions being made. So I'll make a motion to allow a remote call in.

Okay. Is there a second?

I second the motion.

All those in favor, aye.

Aye.

Okay. Hearing none. All those opposed, hearing none. Okay. We will allow the architect to participate via Zoom. Any ex parte communication for any of the items? MARIA We can start with Maria. Do you have anything?

Yeah, I had quite a few. I spoke to Lori Cohen. I spoke to Mr. Jean Louis. I spoke to city manager also.

And this is all for the KPRC item?

Yes, ma'am.

And can you be fair and impartial?

Yes, I can. The

only communication I had was related to the K Park application. I had a Zoom call with the related Ross team earlier today. And I had a conversation with the mayor this morning on that same topic. And I can be fair and impartial.

Okay.

None. Nothing.

I spoke to the related Ross team as well as Urban Design and Jean Louis on Monday by Zoom regarding the K Park project.

And can you be fair and impartial? Okay, perfect. Okay. So the first item tonight is petition number 2020Six-six ARB, color board modification. So we did get a request from a resident to add some darker colors to the color board.

We have the color boards here on display for you to see what the schemes are that residential and nonresidential structures can utilize. We have had a lot of requests for darker colors recently. Honestly, just the same day that this person inquired about adding a color, someone else had inquired about adding having a darker color as well. So it is a trend that is current right now with the colors of exterior homes. The after the storm is the first choice.

This is the color from the Sherwin Williams website. And then this is the person's home and the color on the building. Again, if you decide to add this to the color board, it will be added to the board for all residents to utilize. It is not specific to this house. Okay? So this is after the storm. And then her second options are these other ones on here. So we're happy to discuss more. We have the contractor here as well who would like to you know, who can answer any questions.

Kelly, can you confirm? So this isn't a request to add this color, but these renderings, the house has not been painted?

No. Mm-mm. Okay.

UNIDENTIFIED Is there any presentation or any comments from

No, that's really it. Personally,

I'm not in favor of this. I don't think it really is compatible with the colors that our staff has put together. I appreciate people's desire to sort of kind of go off the grid a little bit and incorporate some, you know, new flavor to Wellington. But I just don't see this as being compatible with, you know, what we have traditionally been supportive of in the past. So it doesn't work for me.

JACKIE KELLY, what is the closest color that we have?

JACKIE So a lot of the colors JACKIE

Request.

JACKIE A lot of the colors are on the additional secondary colors, where you can use them for your garage, your accent, your front door and your trim, or on the front door, so generally smaller areas of the home. These darker colors are not on the primary and secondary wall colors. The closest color I would think would be the bottom two gray colors, maybe the peppercorn or iron ore. Iron ore is

a little

What about that bottom right hand corner and the second one from

That one is, more like a like a deep blue. It's not as dark as the, after the storm. After the storm is almost black, but it have with a view a blue hue to it. But the peppercorn and the iron ore, if you were to add at least one of these options, maybe peppercorn or iron ore. But I don't recommend Tricorn Black, Inkwell, or After the Storm.

So my thought is, it doesn't really fit in the character of the town, but also what about the neighbors? I mean, if I said I wanted a fluorescent green home, I may like it, but it doesn't really fit with anything. I mean, maybe a darker gray, I can see. But this is like charcoal black. It looks like the color choice for like a, know, a roadway or something. Yeah. It's pretty much so. I I don't think this fits in the character.

Does the contractor want to add anything? Yeah. Okay. You can come up to the mic. Can

you show

up to the microphone, please?

And just state your name.

Hi. I'm Carl Save. I'm the contractor for 1050 Fairdale Way. The issue we're having is, you know, I believe it says in Wellington you can't paint your house the same color as your neighbors. Well, our neighborhood is starting to look like Leisureville because there's so many limited colors that they can't find a color because every one of their surrounding neighbors has a color that's dark or white or So now every house is starting to look the same. So you're taking the character out of Wellington by painting every single house white and having tan fences.

I don't think there's a requirement to paint everything white. And I think you've got a pretty good spectrum of colors to choose from. I'm not sure why you're going sort of to the extreme on the color chart to avoid looking similar to what the neighbors have.

I'm not I'm the contractor. So but, you know, the other is a white or a gray. One neighbor's house is the white color they want. The other neighbor's house is the gray color they And it says you can't paint your house same colors as neighbors. So it's like, what am I supposed to do? I make them pick and, you know, one house is yellow, one house is tan, one house is gray, one house is white. Surrounding the whole thing, their whole color palette is surrounded by them. And it says, right in Wellington, you can't paint your house the same color as your neighbors.

Kelly, what is the staff position on that in terms of, I mean,

I either

think it says that they can't be the same architectural design. I don't

More elevations than it is color.

Yeah. Unless your HOA has that requirement, because I know that they have an architectural review board in Meadowood, and maybe something that the architectural review board

That could be, Kelly Coast, in my community. Even when we first purchased, you couldn't on either side. And it was almost like, if you got there before me and you took that brown, I'm out of luck with that brown. I had to go to something else, you know, and had the choice

to go somewhere else

with

color.

I mean, that is a requirement as well. So now I'm looking at painting the house a color that doesn't match the black roof or the black windows or the wood.

HOAs can be more restrictive than the village can be. Has this even been submitted or considered by the HOA?

JAMES It's been submitted to them. They said approved? Before Wellington.

JAMES And they approved it? The HOA

approved it?

JAMES They were fine with it. I mean, I've talked to members of the community. I've talked to inspectors. I mean, I've showed them the renderings. Everybody thinks it's a good look.

:So our code says that no two identical facades shall be placed next to or across the street from each other in residential zoning districts. Identical facades shall mean color, material and design. If any of the elements differ but have one identical element, then this requirement shall not apply. So the houses literally have to be the exact same cookie cutter house next to each other. So I think that issue is with the HOA. It's not with Wellington that they're having the issue with.

But he's did you just say there isn't an issue with the HOA with color?

Well, it's they said it needed to go before Wellington. They didn't have an issue with it. And I've talked to a lot of the residents. But the problem is all the facades are the same. Everybody does a black No.

The facade meeting, like the actual structure, like the elevations of the house.

They're very similar. I mean, they look the same. Round windows, black windows, black metal roofs, white houses. That's what every house is on my block. And like, every house looks the same now. It looks like Leaserville.

Well, I think what we're being asked tonight is to add this to the color chart. It's not REPRESENTATIVE:] about one particular property. No. It's that this becomes part of the approved color chart that anybody could, at any time, could all of a sudden select this color, and it would be approved. Obviously, HOAs have to approve it if it's within a community that requires HOA approval. But in terms of giving broad approval throughout Wellington, I'm not personally comfortable approving this.

I know a lot of the gated communities do have the rule that

you can't have the same color

house next to the other. But I don't I mean, if that's not

a Wellington rule, then that doesn't hold water here.

So I agree with John. I don't think that it

fits in with the character of Wellington. And be it maybe Leisureville, I do enjoy that Wellington is kind of an easygoing place.

So I don't mind that so much.

And again, the point is, for us to approve it, it stretches out across the entire city of Wellington, which is where I think everybody has the sticking point there.

Well, don't want to be here till midnight, so

if there's

no discussion on this panel,

I'll make a Let's first open up to public Is there a second? Second. All those in favor?

Aye. Opposed? Hearing none. Any public comments, Kelly? No. Motion to close.

Second. Second. All

those in

favor? Aye. Opposed? None.

All the

comments are closed. I'll make a motion to deny petition number 2000000260006ARB for the color board modification. Is there a second?

I'll second.

All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously.

Thank you. Okay. Next up is Wellington Village, also known as K Park, conditional use building height. Resolution No. R2026-eight, Petition No.

Twenty twenty six-two CU, which I would like to enter all files into the record. The request tonight is for buildings that exceed 35 feet in height within the Wellington Village, also known as K Park project, which is located on the Southwest Corner of Stribling and State Road 7. Building H is the hotel and is requesting a height of 86 feet. Building G4 is a two storey restaurant with a height of 47 feet. And Buildings D1 And D2 are three storey mixed use buildings with a height of 42 feet.

In January 2025, Council executed a purchase and sale agreement with related Ross and education in motion to purchase the property upon receiving entitlements for a mixed use development. And in April 2025, council approved a village initiated comprehensive plan amendment changing future land use map designation to mixed use. On February 10, council approved the rezoning, master plan and conditional use request to develop a mixed use project with residential, commercial, office, a private school and hotel. And then the conditional use request for the private school was approved last night at council's meeting. The request before you tonight is required by the conditions of approval of the adopted master plan resolution, the adopted project standards manual and the land development regulations, as all buildings taller than 35 feet require council approval.

And Planning and Zoning Adjustment Board and ARB recommendations are required prior to counsel. Staff's presentation will include all building height requirements, such as the background, and the agent will get more into the architectural details of the building. ARB is tasked with making recommendations on the architectural design and materials of the buildings only and not on the height and the other requirements. The proposed buildings are located central to Pod B and adequately separated from residential uses with over 500 feet from Farmington Estates to the South and 1,500 feet from Oakmont Estates to the West. Point of view images were provided in the staff report from various locations on the site, including from the top of the hotel looking south to Farmington Estates.

The land development regulations and adopted project standards manual require increased setbacks for buildings taller than 35 feet, and buildings eligible for 72 feet or more require an additional two feet for every five foot or for I'm sorry, for every foot above 35 feet. This table provides the required setback based on the height of the building versus what was provided. All buildings meet and exceed the increased setback requirement. The LDR requires taller palms within the foundation planting areas around the buildings to soften the visual impact of the building. The palms circled in the next few slides are required to have a gray wood of 12 to 28 feet, depending on the height of the building.

All required landscaping is a condition of approval and must remain as long as the buildings remain. Any and all landscaping that dies, becomes diseased or disfigured must be replaced. Projects that propose buildings greater than 35 feet in height are required to include at least three community benefits. The applicant is providing electrical vehicle charging stations throughout the site, privately improved and maintained public amenities, including promenades and plazas, and LEED based design of silver or higher. The community benefits are required to be shown on the site plan and are included as conditions of approval within the resolution.

In addition, buildings that are eligible for a height of 72 feet may request an additional 20% for a maximum height of 86 feet if each story has a minimum height of 11 feet, meets additional setback requirements and be the only building of that height within a project. Building H meets all of those criteria. And last, architectural design. All buildings provide four sided architecture with windows that occupy a minimum of 40% of the elevations, incorporate projections and recesses with varied lengths and depths, provide repeating patterns with color, texture and material changes are designed with an overall architectural theme and meet the guidelines within the adopted Project Standards Manual and Land Development Regulations. The request was unanimously approved by PZAB at their February 18 meeting.

And based off the analysis provided in the staff report, staff has determined that the request meets the criteria of the comprehensive plan and land development regulations and comply with the requirements for a conditional use. Conditions of approval are provided for in Resolution R2026-eight. And this concludes staff's presentation. And I have the agent here that will make a follow-up presentation with all the architectural elements. And I have the architect on Zoom. Can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Okay. Perfect.

Thank you so much, Kelly. Good evening, Board members, Lindsey Jean Louis with Urban Design Studio. I'm just going to kind of run through, again, the administrative portion of the presentation, and I will hand it off to the architect shortly after. As Kelly mentioned, the specific buildings that we are requesting the council approval for above 35 feet are Buildings D 1, D 2, G 4, And H. And as of 02/10/2026, the master plan for K Park was approved.

And then more recently, 02/18/2026, the planning zoning adjustment board approved the conditional use height request. And in December 2025, that was the date of the council amendment to, begin this process of buildings above 35 feet needing that council approval subject to additional requirements as well as the allowance of that 20% increase above the 72 foot height for one building within a planned development, which we are requesting for the hotel. So this shows the site that we're all fairly familiar with at the Southwest Corner of Stribling and State Road 7 and the surrounding context and communities. And then in more detail, the, master plan, which was approved on, February 10 with the related Wellington mixed use village side on the East and then the school pod on the West. And the architect will get into this in more detail, but this just shows the general heights throughout the village.

The majority of the buildings are between one and two stories. As we get to the south and center portion of the site, we get Buildings D 2 And D 1, which are three stories in height. Building G 4, which is two stories but has higher floor to ceiling heights, to accommodate for a restaurant, and event space. And then Building H, which is the seven story hotel. And this shows the exact height specific to what we're requesting. So I would like to hand off the presentation at this point to our architect, David Manfreddy, who couldn't be with us tonight, but is again attending via Zoom. And then David, I'll just go slide by slide. Just let me know to continue once you're ready.

DAVID Thank you. Good evening, everybody. I promise you we'd be more than happy to be in Wellington tonight rather than under about four feet of snow in Boston.

I'm not catching any of this.

Is there a way to higher the volume of the Zoom?

Let us try can you hear us now?

It's a little bit better.

Is that better?

A little better?

I'm getting closer.

Let me go as loud as I can. Thank you very much for giving us permission to join you remotely tonight. I am going to walk through the overall village so you get a sense of the context. And then we'll focus on the four buildings that Rensie pointed out. If you go to the next, please.

So as Lindsay pointed out, the site is divided into the two parts, the eastern part being the mixed use retail, residential, and hotel, the western part being the Wingrove Academy. Next, please. And this is diagram, not just of the building footprints, but of the actual currently intended uses of all of those buildings. And let me explain the key. The pink rep and again, before I do that, this is truly intended to be a mixed use village.

And what I mean by that is it will include retail. It will include restaurants. You heard event space. What that really means is a ballroom kind of space, meeting kind of space. It will include hotel.

And it will include apartments. And you'll also see parking. I want to point out one thing that you've probably heard us say several times, so I'll say it briefly. The intent here is to make the parking, push the parking somewhat to the perimeter, to limit the amount of times that you get in and out of your car. So you come here by car, you park your car, you become a pedestrian.

This becomes as pedestrian an environment as is possible. We're creating a street on the eastern end of the site that parallels Route 7 that is intended to be more about the pedestrian than it is about the car. The parking is diagonal parking. It will calm traffic. You see that parallel to 7.

And then you see a series of perpendicular ways that include, right down the middle of the site, East West, a pedestrian way that leads from Route 7 to our large water feature. You see another East West that is a street that we, at the moment, call Hotel Street, because it terminates in the hotel that you just heard describe. Both of those paths are two sided retail or restaurants, active uses with storefronts that will engage pedestrians. And our goal is on the street side to be continuously open, transparent, accessible, and engaging of pedestrians. And especially in the interior of the site, to design really four sided buildings to really limit the sense of backsides.

And to have a scale that is of a village scale, but with diversity, meaning that we do have several taller buildings. We have a lot of one story buildings. We have some two story buildings. And then I'll describe in greater detail the ones that exceed 35 feet. So the pink represents and again, this is a conceptual layout plan at the moment.

Not that the footprints are conceptual, but the actual teneting and the distribution of teneting. So the pink is thought of as more traditional retail. That's both soft goods and hard goods, a great deal of diversity. But you can also see basically small footprints. These are not big boxes or medium sized boxes.

These are smaller tenants. Critical metric really is how many doors. And what I mean by that is how many individual tenants. The goal is you come here because it's a destination, because there's variety and diversity, and you'll dwell, you'll stay. The gold and yellow represent food and beverage.

The purple is the hotel, which we'll talk about in greater detail. The red at the very top, along scribbling, is grocery store. If you go to the next, now you can see on the 2nd Level, the lighter yellow represents apartments that are on the 2nd Floor right in the middle. The darker purple represents fitness. So again, two sided, against two story buildings.

We have really pushed the taller buildings more into the center of the site so they have less impact on the perimeter. The kind of gold color is that meeting event kind of space. The purple is the hotel. And then the light lavender color, both at the north and the top, is office space, professional office space, of WeWork kind of space as well, providing space for small businesses in Roanoke. If you go to the next.

And then you can see Level 3 plan. The only buildings that go up to Level 3 are that office space at the southern end of the site, and then in the deeper purple, the hotel space. Here's I'm going to go through a series of renderings, again, just to give you context and quickly. This is the entry off of Striblin. You come into an entry road, and then go right towards the grocery store, which is the building on the right with office above.

You go left, and you're onto our Main Street that parallels Route 7. Is called the grocery store. It's more than that. It's a grocery store with restaurant, a great deal of outdoor seating, and office above, again intended to be smaller scale tenants, professional office with outdoor space. Go to the next.

And then now I'm on Main Street. And Main Street and this is a line of buildings that's on Route 7. So these are typically one story buildings. The intention is that our kind of conceit here is that this is a series of individual buildings. There's an imaginary kind of property line between them.

It's not real at all. But just the intent that creates scale. It's, again, the number of doors, the number tenants that creates diversity and will attract the diverse number of guests. If you go to the next, this is am now down on the southern end of the site. We call this a brewery.

It's a restaurant and may well have brewery not operations, but a wide range of beer offerings in it. Outdoor seating, there's some two story space on the interior. And there will be a roof terrace as well. The material palette on these buildings is quite diverse. There will be stucco, but there will also be stone, as well as, you can see in what we've submitted, brick, but in a very light color, stone in light color, but enough variation to reinforce this idea of multiple buildings and not any of the topology of a retail strip.

This is the pedestrian way that leads to our water feature. You can see that this is relatively narrow, totally pedestrian scale. On the left, a two story building that has fitness above. On the right, a two story building that has our residential apartments above. Go to the next. On the waterfront, there are three or four significant restaurants. You see one of them here. That would be on your north. But you also see a big green space, because there will be significant open, publicly accessible green space. Another restaurant that's on the water.

There's a complete pedestrian loop all the way around the water. But again, totally accessible at all times. Go to the next. This is one of our smaller buildings. This is the three story building, D1 and D2, that has retail at the base. This is at the intersection of our Main Street and Hotel Drive. You can see the hotel off in the distance to the right, with two stories of office above. Multiple tenants on the Ground Floor of this building. Go to the next. This is a restaurant with a vent space above, another one of our taller buildings.

The height here is measured to the mid height of the slope of the gable roof. It's a restaurant below. It's a bed space above. It's relatively taller floor to floor height, because it can be completely open and create space of about 3,000 square feet. It can be broken down into smaller spaces. You can see a lot of outdoor space, terraces, Ground Floor terraces, and then balconies above. This is what we call Hotel Street. That's a hotel at the end of the street. I showed you D1 and D2. The hotel is six stories, restaurants flanking in on either side.

The front door is right in front of you. This is a drop off in a valet area that serves not just the hotel, but the retail and restaurants at this end of this site. The materiality here is a combination of stone and precast panels, perhaps stucco on some of those. I think gives you a sense of what that water's edge will look

like. Next.

And thank you so much, David. I think that's the architectural component. I'll skip through some of these. This just kind of shows an aerial view of the site from a bird's eye view. But just to walk through the site views too, this is the existing view from State Road 7.

We've imposed what the development is going to look like. And again, the hotel is actually set back more than 600 feet from State Road 7 and also more than 600 feet from Stribling. So again, definitely some consideration as to the placement of the tallest element into the site. This is a series of views from the Life Church parking lot immediately to the south of our site. So you can see it's fairly screened by landscaping when you're at the southern end of the parking lot.

And you could see it a bit more prominently when you're at the northern end of the parking lot. And then as requested by the mayor, we also prepared a view of what it would look like from this top seven story of the hotel. On the left, you see the existing view of the site and then the proposed view with the development superimposed. And then looking south, the existing view and the proposed view with some landscaping. And again, just kind of showing that distance to see that there's going to be maintained residential privacy for the residents of Farmington Estates to the south.

So that concludes our presentation tonight. Again, we have David, our architect, here to answer questions as well as Kevin Ryan with Related Ross and our office with Urban Design Studio. Thank you. Thank you.

Kelly, just to be clear in terms of our approvals tonight, we're only considering the height changes that on the four buildings. Is that correct?

So you're only you're only looking at the architectural design and materials of the four buildings. All the other items that the architect showed, all the different views and the different views of the main street of the smaller buildings, those eventually will be coming before you when they have when they submit the architectural review board applications. But this is specifically for the design and materials of the buildings that are requesting the height increase. Because what was happening was we changed the way the code was written just recently where, building heights always had to get council approval. So it would go PZAB council get approved.

And they already had their elevations and all, like council approved the building based off those elevations. And then they'd have to go back to ARB to get the elevations approved after council already saw it. So we made it so that the ARB happened in the center.

Makes Right. Obviously, we wanna open this to public hearing before maybe we have discussion.

Sure. There a motion?

A motion to open public hearing. Second? I'll second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, motion passes. Any comments from the public? No. Motion to close public hearing? Second? Aye. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Have we heard from Farmington, any of the surrounding communities, any opposition concerns, any feedback from any interested parties, anything?

Not on the height. Everything that was any concerns that we had with the residents was handled at the master plan level. And it had to do with the landscape berm and the height of the fence and the wall that was on that berm. And all that was taken care of.

I've got a bunch of stuff. If you guys want to weigh in first, I'll

No, please.

Traffic concerns from the communities outside?

So again, that was handled at the master plan level. There is going to be a shared access way within Life Church.

I know I'm I may going off the rail a little bit.

Okay.

Only because I

Live on

No, and I've been contacted by other communities about major issues with the traffic study. And I spoke to mister Jean Pierre and the traffic engineer about that. And it's great the roundabouts had to be put in place Yeah. To try to alleviate that situation. But I think they I think they failed to zoom out about 30,000 feet and see the effect that it's going to have, particularly at the intersection of Lake Worth Road and 441, considering the majority of those vehicles that exit that footprint.

If they want to get back to the turnpike, which the majority will be, that will be their main way to get back to the Florida Turnpike. Going down Southern Boulevard to that entrance is not going to be. And considering how bad that traffic is at that light already, where the traffic from that light is backed up past communities, where people from those communities, in particular Versailles Four Fifty Wellington residents have a major issue with getting out of their community already, and more importantly, getting back into the community where there's been numerous pretty bad accidents, cars flipped already. Now this is just going to make that even worse. And unfortunately, there was nothing on these plans or discussions about maybe zooming out to try to do something to address that issue.

So hopefully people have heard my mouth with that.

So the decision we I know there was bunch of millions of dollars worth of traffic improvements that they agreed to do with the master plan approval. A lot of it was along Stribling, which was the construction of the roundabout, and then the, realignment of the, Life Church entrance, and then the installation of the traffic signal that's going to be there and then all of the intersection improvements at Stribling and State Road 7. They do have to contribute proportionate share payments for improvements in various intersections throughout Wellington and Palm Beach County. I don't recall Lake Worth and State Road 7 being one of them. Correct.

But there was other ones. And it's all based on traffic analysis between the two traffic engineers.

JAMES One of which who I spoke to. And he was excellent with the way he handled it. And Mr. Jean Louis, I think they totally understood where I was coming from. They even agreed to a certain extent that this may have been overlooked at this point in time. Hopefully, will go back to their people and maybe open up some additional talks about extending some issues that may alleviate that problem, which is going to be a major problem going forward, a major problem. So that's it on me with that. Thank you for letting me voice that.

I think those are valid points, Al, but I just want to confirm. Mean, that's kind of outside of the scope of

Yes, what we're I know doing right today, John.

Have the forum.

Exactly. I want you to go on the soapbox a little bit, and thank you for hearing me. I appreciate that.

To that point, has the issue with Castellina and the granting of additional properties have been resolved? Or is that still in discussion?

Good evening. Kevin Ryan, development executive at Related Ross. Yes, for those that are not familiar with the topic is along Stripling's one of the proposed amendments to help alleviate traffic was a roundabout, which is at the happens to be at the entrance of Castellina and also directly across the way, the school. So it's actually

:Post the aerial picture that actually has it.

:Yeah, actually I think that was in here. Where was that? Let's see. Which direction was it? Think it was this way.

There's just like the site plan view.

Yeah. No. There's aerial view.

The aerial picture.

Oh, yes.

You skipped over it real quickly.

Yep.

Can you go full screen here? So what you can see is on the the left side is Tribbling heading east. In the foreground is Wind Grove Academy. In the background is the related Ross development. But the proposed rotary that we're discussing, you can see on the lower left.

And it has a small amount of land taking. It's only about 6,300 square feet to complete the roundabout engineering and planning. And because it was taking some HOA property, it had to go through a twothree vote, which the president has just completed recently, and they have in excess of the twothree required. So they're documenting that now, but they will agree to the rotary. And so it would be moving forward as part of our plan.

So that roundabout really is the ingress and egress for the school component of this development, correct?

On the South Side, yes. It also benefits Castoline. It was specifically located to co benefit both properties. Also, just from a general traffic standpoint, if they had not been aligned with each other, it would probably have not been a good traffic layout. But just to confirm,

but that roundabout, obviously there's tremendous benefit for Castellan and for them to get

in and out

of their community.

Yes, it helps them.

But the access point into this section of K part really is

the Oh, specifically for is the school. Specifically serving just the school.

In

fact, the school, because it's a private school, does not JACKSON: intersect with the related Ross

I don't see that. I'm sorry. Go ahead.

Oh, okay. Yes. So a very key point, which the way this site lays out and the improvements actually, if I can go to the specs of the site plan. Help me with the full site plan. I don't where it is. One second. Gotcha. Just the full site plan. Yep. Including the school.

To the beginning. We go. Actually, I

think it's better to go to

Right before David was talking.

Yep.

Right here. Right here. The one before. There we go. Full screen, please. Just bear with me for a minute. All right. So what you see on the plan, and what's a very important aspect of the circulation of the school traffic, is lower right there's the pond which is serving the Life Church. And you'll notice there's a rotary by that pond. And that actually connects going east to a new traffic signal that doesn't exist today.

So the majority of the school traffic that everybody's been concerned is concerned legitimately as to school traffic issues driven by particularly parental pickup and drop off in the mornings and afternoons, and the same for school buses, almost all of that traffic exclusively will be going to this State Road 7 component. The traffic going north is more administrative visitors and also serving the elementary school. So there's two rotaries. The one is the one that is opposite Castellan, and there's one that's actually on the Life Church property. Do I think that's the point that you're referring to?

And this has gone through extensive vetting and review through the zoning process, the master plan approval, the traffic studies were presented in detail.

Well, fortunately, we're not here to sort of debate traffic and ingress and egress and all those variables that probably create a lot of concern for surrounding neighbors. Can we focus on the four buildings? Mean, we're looking at just height and we're looking at architectural design, material selection. So I love, you know, the powerful presentation on the overall master plan of the community, and I think it's a great benefit to the community. But let's just focus on the four buildings that we're discussing tonight. And then whatever order you guys want to present them, let's just take them one

at a time.

Yeah, absolutely.

Use the rendering stuff, right? I wouldn't try

and use So the

this is the first building. This is actually two buildings. This is D1 and D2. Yeah. David, are you still on?

I am. We're here. So I can describe this building in greater detail. It is exactly what Lindsay said. It's designated as D1 and D2. It's retail on the Ground Floor. And it's all just based on

You can

see that it's Speak actually up

a little bit louder, or make the microphone closer to you.

JOSEPH Okay. It's actually subdivided, you can see, into really into three parts in order to get it greater scale. You can see a lot of transparency on the Ground Floor, where will be retail tenants. And then more of an office expression on Floors 2 And 3. The material palette here is a combination of light colored brick, stucco, perhaps the third of the three massing components might even be a stone.

We don't have final selection of all of the materials. But you can see the color palette is intended to be not absolutely uniform, but generally light in color, to have some real texture to these buildings, but to use material and color as a way to create a scale in three parts. And the reason those three parts are joined is really to create an effective, efficient office floor plan on floors to integrate.

Let me just interject for a second. I know technology's come a long way, but I'm really struggling to really understand what's being said. You know, look, no disrespect. Think it's just obviously the technology. Is anybody here locally in this room representing the architect that can maybe just Yeah.

I'm happy to help facilitate that.

So let's just look at this as Building 1. So on the Exhibit A site plan, this is what, D1, D2? Yes, it's D1

and D2. It's really one building. It happens to be connected by a bridge. It's treated as one building from a design standpoint.

All right. So we're looking at this at a height of 42 feet?

Yes. And just to be clear, this the 42 feet is a natural height that comes out of a three story office building. So, you know, it's about a, I think, 16 foot ground level retail, which is typical, and 13 feet for the two floors. And that adds up more or less to the 42 feet.

In each of these cases, that maximum height, including mechanical, elevator, that is the maximum height of any of the elements of the building?

LENSY I believe it excludes certain elements as

far There's as the a portion of parapets and mechanical equipment that slightly exceeds that 42, but that functional zoning definition to the flat roof is 42 feet. Okay.

Height is one thing that we're going to consider as a Board tonight for this particular building. And then the architectural details, the elements mature

Just the architectural details and the materials.

Not the high. Not high.

Not that.

No, we have nothing to do.

It's nothing. Yeah. The Architectural Review Board is only tasked of looking at the materials.

It's not how I understood it. I thought you were looking at the 86 foot as

No.

All right. So let's look at this as Building 1. Does anybody have any comments or discussion on

So I understand you're varying architectural elements all throughout different materials and design styles. Is This like a very kind of simplistic modern style, almost not quite brutalistic, but a little bit plain.

Yes. I think, and I'll try and speak. David, correct me if I misspeak. But in general, there is a sort of a conceptual theme that this should feel like a village that has been there for a long time, say mid century 1950s, 60s, 80s, whatever, but that has grown and matured in time. So it would have been kept current as it grew.

So there is a mix of what I would call more traditionally inspired, but we definitely also wanted to have a mix of things that were more contemporary as well. And that's represented in some of the individual retail buildings as well as in this particular office building. The other office building, which is not over 35 feet, is the one that had the market in the base. And that had a much more different look. So as David mentioned, there's a specific goal to achieve variety and a good balanced mix of contemporary and traditional.

I mean, I personally like the blend of design and materials, not just for this building, but kind of throughout the entire development. So while we're on this building, do we have any other comments? Anybody else want to weigh in on this?

No, was going to say I actually like the way that they've kind of mixed the rounded edges with some of the square edges. It gives it a little bit of character. What are the metal casings for the windows? Is that kind of a bronze color or a

David, could you I'll try and interpret the I believe it's more of a metal finish that is the vertical elements. David, is that correct?

That's correct, Kevin. I hope you can hear me. Yes, the intention is that that's a painted metal. Again, reflecting that this office above, and that's kind of an office metric, but also connecting the Ground Floor to those two upper floors. And as you can see on this corner, having some setbacks so that we do we're very respectful of the scale of the street and getting as much daylight to the street as possible.

So one of things I think Dave is referring to, and this is maybe the one place in the project where this is specifically done, is the storefront design on the ground level. You can see the piers actually go up vertically and stylistically are picked up on the second, third floor to provide kind of vertical continuity. Because in general, most of the retail buildings are just one or two stories. So I think there's been a nice design effort to balance the retail and office objectives.

Okay. So the four so this is D1 and D2, basically the We'll design elements and do the hotel last, if we can. So we can we go to the next item for approval? G4?

So you'd like to I'll speak this again is

This is G4, just to confirm this

is is G4.

Okay. So

just again, programmatically, so everybody understands what you're looking at. There's a Ground Floor that's a restaurant, and also there's actually two premises, one which you can't see, but there's a bakery intended tenant, but it could be somebody else. But generally speaking, it's a restaurant use as extensive outdoor dining. And the intent is, in this marketplace, that we think there's a lot of demand for social events. And we're looking for restaurateurs that do both dining as well as event facilities.

So it's specifically designed in event facilities typically have a taller height requirement, particularly as they get a little bit this isn't a convention center, but it would be, I think, about 4,000 or 5,000 square feet of event area. So you need a little bit taller space, which is leading to a relatively tall space. I do think architecturally, and you can see it quite clearly, the element that is taking us to the limit is just this rear element that has the peak roof in it, which is an architectural stylistically thing that I think is very beneficial to the building. Because in general, most of the building is under that requirement.

Is this the west elevation? What are we from the

This is facing the water side is due west. The other side is north, facing onto the major public green of the project.

So you're going get some pretty brutal sunsets coming in. Brutal for a

while, but beautiful at other times.

Doubt. No doubt. You doing anything to sort of mitigate sort of that intense sun in late afternoons in the summer?

Yes. It's maybe not fully developed conceptually, but what you do see here is an exterior element that is a covered outdoor dining area, and it has louvers to sort of shield the sunlight. Probably in time we would add other things like shades that could come down during the, that are mechanized, that could come down during the most direct sunlight hours.

I'm sure they'll

get it figured out when nobody wants to sit outside. But

however, the good news is that there's also the element on the left that is outdoor dining that faces north, and it sits right on the green. So there would be very popular dining on the north side of the building.

I think it's great. Any comments, questions, concerns? Okay.

And then this is I'll just take you again down the So I know we said they're not speaking to height, but the height in this intent was sort of a focal point for the project. And as you move down the street, architecturally oops, I think I went the wrong way, sorry. Get a little bit closer. So this one, I think, the exterior design of this building is intentionally somewhat urbanistic as opposed to suburban in its intent, as an element that is the tallest element within the project and seen as a village hotel. It is, I think, trying to strike a balance between the more contemporary look as well as still having a traditional element to its architecture.

And it has a very central point in the middle where we're focusing on the axis of the hotel road, a really beautiful motor court that has both restaurants, the hotel, and retail on it. And then that central element is the marquee component of the facade design. And it does have setbacks as you go up in various efforts. David, maybe you could try and pick up on any other comments you'd like to make. Speak clearly, if you can.

DAVID Yes. What we're really trying to do is create scale at ground level. And you see the covered trellis way that connects from the right side to the left side. We've created a focus at the front door that goes all the way up the height of the building. We intend that to be clad in stone.

And then on the left and on the right, we'll have more a combination of precast panels, but with metal framed windows inset on the interior. And then you can see the intent being that the top floor has a sense of an attic story, kind of stepped back very, very slightly. But also the idea of operable sash that allows you to open your doors and have a balcony rail on that upper floor. We really intend this architecturally to be the termination of that street and to be a destination in a style that is kind of the grand hotel.

JOSHUA

Look, I may be in the minority on this. And for your sake, that's hopefully the case. I look at this, and I mean, this is sort of the elephant in the room. So when I look at this site and we're looking at building heights, materials, design, this is the one that stands out as 86 feet. I don't have a problem with the height, and we're not here to debate that tonight.

But I shared some renderings earlier today on the Zoom call. In this environment, I think you guys have done a great job of bringing all these other building materials and elements and design from mid century to sort of more contemporary. But to me, this hotel stands out as a very urban design, somewhat out of place in this environment. And so I'd like to see if there's a way that we can't soften this and incorporate some warmth, some character, some charm that, you know, I don't know, looking at this, if this is going to be a hotel or a self storage facility. Look, you guys are experts in this.

And you've got a track record better than anybody in South Florida. So I just want to share my personal points of view and to see if there's a way that we can incorporate some warmer materials. Know, I look at all the windows, everything's rectangular, some arches. Balconies or something. Just some things to kind of soften this in

We this can certainly take that advice into consideration. We are at the I would say we're in design development. This is not advanced construction documents or even midway through design development. The color palette and the material palette we're still working on. I will say one thing, which is this building also in the night, we don't have a nighttime view, but this could be an absolutely stunning environment at night. This entire motor court, the landscaping, the attention to Ground floor, as well as how this verticality could be lit. So I do think it'd be quite stunning at night as well. I think one of the images you shared with us was an evening view. So that had the benefit, I think, of lighting. But yes, we'll take your advice into consideration as we are literally still in process of advancing the design.

It's good timing.

So Kelly, let me direct this to you then. So if we've got concerns over this architectural sort of design and style, is that being discussed tonight? Do we kick that back for them to come back with other alternatives?

So you can approve it with the recommendations to alter the architectural design with the suggestions that you have with the warmth, character, charm, incorporate arches, balconies. When they go to council and if the height is approved, the architectural design, that design is part of the approval. And then in the future, if they decide that they want it to look a little different, they'll have to come back to the Architectural Review Board to make those modifications.

So in terms of the cycle, I don't want to delay things. So in terms of process and timing, if again, I'm one person speaking at this point, if the recommendation was to come back with a slightly modified design, does that interfere with the schedule of hearings with counsel?

Yes. They're they're scheduled for their final hearing on March 10.

On March. Okay. So that's the next council meeting.

But you

can make I don't those

think you're complaining about the actual size of the hotel, the scale,

the It's not the it's just the style, yeah.

Just the overall architectural elements.

I agree.

And in the future, if they make changes to the design and it doesn't affect the height, which is what council approves, then the only board that they'll have to go to is ARB to make

those changes.

Right. And if you look at bottom, it says conceptual rendering design in progress. So it is in progress. So that doesn't mean we're going to necessarily hold anything up, which I don't want to do that either.

No. But like I said, if it's something if something does change and it's not part of the height, then or if it's yeah, if the height is not part of that modification, they'll come back to ARB. They'll have to

come Yeah. Personally don't have a problem with the height. I think the location of it where it's set, it's far enough back from State Road 7 and from Stribling. I think with the landscaping and all the other activity, I really don't think it's going to be an issue. I would just be concerned about approving what I'm seeing in terms of the physical design and architecture that's being presented tonight. So if there's an opportunity to keep this on track, but have them come back and maybe provide a couple alternatives, I would be more receptive to that.

Well, would make a recommendation to approve it, but include all of those comments that you had, that if changes are being that they're still in the design phase and this may not be their final product, that when they come back for any alternatives that they include these changes. DAY:

If I may.

JAMES Absolutely.

I like what I see. I totally understand and respect what John is saying. But if we approve this, okay, with these exceptions, with all due respect to them, they don't have to come back with any other drawings because technically this is approved. So I'm feeling that the only way we can kind of force them to come back with possible other drawings or renditions is by disapproving this.

Well, so even if you recommend denial, it's the recommendation to counsel. Counsel is the ultimate one that will approve it.

You understand what I'm saying? I know what you would like to see, and I think that would be a good idea. But I don't, you may not get, or they may not even have to come back with any other drawings because we're approving this.

Absolutely. I'm not looking to deny this. Right. Just to set the record straight, guys. This

is You understand what I'm saying?

Absolutely. But, you know, I'm also fearful of it. If we do give you the approval, that you could say, don't pound sand, and you approve this, and we're taking this to counsel for final approval. Exactly. Exactly. So,

yeah. So again, this is a recommending body for this application. Yes. I know it's not a common it's not a common usually when you make your recommend or you make your motion, it's either approved or denied. But this is just a recommendation to counsel. So counsel can take your recommendations and require them to make those changes, or they can just And

they can tell

me to bounce back.

Yes. And

look, guys, I promise you, I'm really not trying to throw a wrench in this in any way. I appreciate what you guys are bringing to this community. This is obviously well thought out, well planned, and you guys have a history of executing flawlessly. So we want to make sure that

Mr. Green, we totally understand. Look, my name is Ken Tube. I'm with Urban Design Studio. Here with Mr. Ryan, who is here for related to Ross. We did talk about I mean, we're not done yet. I mean, we're the first person, but we also have to get this height approved, right? So that's a step in the process where we're at. Mr. Ryan already told me, he's certainly he's looking at the buildings. It does need to be warmed up. He's correct. So we are going to continue to work on it. How that fits in the process, we have to figure that out amongst ourselves, but our goal is to move forward tonight to get to the village council. Okay. I'll

step

back for a minute. Just want

to give everybody a chance to speak in.

I also have no problem with the height. I think this is kind of like the grand centerpiece. And it should be the grand centerpiece. And you have a lot of liberty in terms of architecture to do that. And if I look at I know this is not the final thing, so I'm not gonna criticize that. But if I took this picture and I put it anywhere, could be anywhere in America. It's just a box with a bunch of squares. Right? I I know there's more detail than that. But I got I I just want you guys to do use your architectural skill and brilliance and come up with something amazing that you're going be proud of fifty years from now that, hey, this is Wellington.

That's all I want to say. And you have our blessings, think most of us. And I think it's a great new urbanism project that's, you know, all the concepts are there. I love it. I think I want to let you guys have your artistry and come up with something spectacular. That's all I'm asking.

Yeah, I have to agree. I mean, I love all the other designs, the other buildings. But then when you get to the tallest building in the project, it's kind of cold. And for being the, you know, the tallest building in the project, I just like, I agree. I think it needs to be softened to kind of match the rest of what we're seeing here, which is really beautiful.

Gentlemen, we're all very excited about this project. We couldn't be more pleased that a company like yours is the company that's going to be handling this entire thing. You understand our concern, we just hope you act in the professional manner that you always do, and come back with us with, you know, a couple other ideas. We don't want to hold up anything here. Thank you.

Maria, any thoughts?

Just a question. Will the hotel have like ballroom convention ability to hold conventions, meetings?

This particular hotel does not have a significant meet it does have some meeting rooms, but more like small conferences. That's specifically why we have the restaurant with the event facility next door. But even that event facility is not that large. It would handle a, a small to medium sized wedding, nice social events, but we do not have ballrooms or convention space. And we hear you clearly the good news is David Manfreddy is on the phone, and he's hearing this direct himself.

He's making notes.

He's a fantastic architect and we are in design development. We are not at the completed stage, so I think it is a good time to have some helpful suggestions.

I think one of the not how the building looks, but one of the concepts I know you've gone to Palm Beach and you've been to the Colony Hotel. Everyone loves that as a everyone knows Colony Hotel. I'm not saying it should look like that. I'm just saying, you know, the garden in the back with the pool. And you have all those abilities to do that. It faces the lake. There's that beautiful opening. And I don't think we're looking for conventions per se, but people can host a wedding. People can have small events, like you said. I think this fits need. If you want a convention, you go downtown.

Correct.

We're the that's the hub. We're the spoke. And we get that. We don't need to be the convention center with more traffic and everything else.

All right. So we'll be refining I'm sure we'll share with you where we end up in our next round.

Thank you. You so

think we've got And

as was mentioned, we will be back as we move through the other approval stages for all the different buildings.

We're going

to be back with the next one we can give you.

And we'll share it when we

get That's great point. Procedural. I was trying to think procedurally how to get to where you want

to go. We're going be back in front of you again for the other buildings. We'll bring you up to date on where we land on this one as we move forward, and we'll be able to have comments on it.

Look, we look forward to working with you guys. And you've got a lot of support on this board, and I think throughout the entire village. We just want to make sure that we're putting the best product out there for the community. And your name's on it, but it's in our town. So we want to make sure that we're good partners and you're good stewards of the legacy of Wellington.

Understood. And we obviously the Relay, the Ross team have many members of their team who live here also. They're very

focused. John,

I think we all agreed with your notes. But I'd love to hear what they are before

As far as notes? As far as notes are concerned. Look, think it's more direction than specific notes. It sounds like we've got consensus on this board. I mean, I'm happy to make a notion in motion and incorporate some of the talking points that I think we've all kind of shared.

I think the direction is that we want to see something a little bit softer, little bit more compatible with a more suburban, rural environment, if we want to call Wellington rural. But this just strikes me as very urban, very stark, lacking of some character and charm. So if you guys can kind of work on that, you're the experts. I think you've got good direction from this Board. We're not the final say, but we do have a lot of input in terms of the design that we'll recommend to counsel.

As Kelly said, we're the advisory board. We're not the final decision makers. But if there's not much of the discussion, I'll be happy to make a motion. And Kelly, if we can incorporate that into the motion, we'll let these guys REPRESENTATIVE:] come back with something great.

Is there a second?

I'll second.

All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Hearing none, passes unanimously. Thank you, guys. Appreciate it.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Next up is tradition number 2026Dash0002DashARB, family church elevations and materials.

Good evening. I'm Jonathan Sandoval, planner here for the village of Wellington. Tonight, am presenting petition number 2026Dash0002DashARBFamilyChurch. Owned by Family Church dash fifteen LLC, the parcel consists of five acres and the request is for ARB to approve new construction of a 33,462 square foot church facility. The subject the subject parcel is located at 12700 Forest Hill Boulevard built in 1978 and was purchased by the owner in 2024.

Here are two images of the subject parcel with existing conditions looking both north and south. Next is the proposed site plan for the new construction of Family Church. We now move on to the proposed elevations. Currently displayed are the east and north elevations. And following are the west and south post elevations.

We then move on to the site amenities. Being displayed are the benches, bike racks, and waste receptacles that will be provided throughout the site. There will be a total of six benches, three bike racks, and four trash trash receptacles. Now above is the material and paint legend that presents the finishes and colors that will be used in the proposed new construction. Finally, we get to the condition of approval.

If ARB votes to approve petition number 2026Dash0002Dash ARB and the new construction of Family Church, the staff will provide the following. I wanna thank you for your time. I'm now available for any questions.

Thank you.

Long time no talk.

Yeah, right.

Welcome back.

There you go.

Go ahead. Great.

And thank you so much. Again, Lindsay Jean Louis with Urban Design Studio. This item is specific to Family Church Wellington, which was the old First Baptist Church Wellington site, to the ARB board for the request of the elevations. And as you can see here, the site contains an existing church located at the Northeast corner of Forest Hill Boulevard and Guilford Way. And this is just the existing conditions of the church as it stands today, but it is owned by the family church network.

And then their idea of neighborhood church is really just tapping into the community. So of course, they have their main downtown West Palm campus. But Sherbrooke, have Jupiter, they have and now coming into Wellington. So really establishing a neighborhood footprint. And here's the approved site plan for the existing church.

To date, only this northern portion has been built. But there was a portion of a plan phase two which they never came forth with. And here we have our proposed site plan which actually maintains the access points but proposes one building within the center of the site, a storage building to the north, and a dumpster enclosure just south of that. So I'll pass this off really briefly to Felipe Adamburo, who's our architect on the project, to more speak to the materiality and colors on the elevations.

Good evening. So I'll pretty much keep it short because I know we're here for a while now. But basically, the main goal of the design concept is we try to match the concept, the elevations of the village of where we're standing in right now, as you can tell, sort of matching the standing seam metal roof, like a charcoal gray, like the beige colors with the wainscoting being a little darker to kinda have a nice little contrast to it. And right now, we are presenting to you, as you guys probably have in front of you, is Sherwin William colors, but we also have some options of maybe adding in some stone to give it a little bit more of a strong presence in the neighborhood. And as Lindsay was saying, this is sort of, like, gonna be the the neighborhood church where it brings a lot of people together.

As you guys could tell, family church already brings in a lot of people. And this building alone now, you know, 33,000 square feet, is gonna sort of amplify bringing the community together with just this type of architecture because now they're gonna see not just the village has a beautiful design, but now the church itself also matching sort of that concept. Here's the of the north elevation. So like once you enter from Forest Hill, this is one of the first things you'll see on your right hand side. You'll kind of see like the tower giving a, a nice little presence.

We tried to match the whole tower concept you guys have here with the clock tower along with our elevation, meaning that the tower is one of the first things you'll see as you drive along Forest Hill. Here is the main west facade that as you drive along Forest Hill, this is what you will see with the open gable presence where the actual sanctuary is. And then on the south side, that is where the classrooms will be. You'll have a playground in front of it where basically the children will come outside and play. And also, we'll have some awnings there to kind of help with the sunlight.

Here is the south elevation. So same thing. As you're driving towards Forest Hill and you turn into the neighborhood, this is also the main facades that you'll see. And then basically, the storage building kind of just carries the concept, carries through the concept of what already we're trying to propose to family chairs. Same thing, standing seam.

The beige colors with the strong gray accents. And the separated dumpster enclosure, which we're making sure stays 100 feet away from any neighborhood properties. Just another view of the elevations. Same thing, the awnings, sort of just to help with some sunlight, give it a little the design a bit more presence in the playgrounds. And of course, it'll have some lighting.

And as I was talking about, here's the material palette that you'll see. Basically, we can either go stay with the Sharon Williams colors, or we also have the option of going with a company called Ariscraft, Some nice precast stone colors, limestone, satin, or a Montecito gray along with, like, a wood style color for those louvered areas that you see in the main facades that I could just go quickly back to along the classroom when in the middle between the classroom windows upstairs and downstairs along with the sanctuary main facade area, the open gable right there, sort of the brown that you'll see there. And I'll pass it back over to Lindsay.

Well, while you're here, do you have any images of some of the alternative materials you just suggested in the limestone?

I do have the stone, but it is actually in my car. They're a bit heavy, so that's why I didn't bring that. I wasn't sure.

So would it be a cladding on the building in what areas?

Correct. It'll be I'll show you right now. So in the storage, the only cladding you'll see is right there at the wainscoting level, up to 42 inches. In the main facade so in the classroom area, so the south side to the right, as you see in the elevation, only the wainscoting. Everything else will be stucco.

The cladding will be actually on the main facade of the sanctuary, which is the open gable along with that sort of one story flat roof area where you see the cedar windows. Same thing here. This whole facade will basically be cladded except the egress tower right there in the middle. But to help, basically right here on the right hand side, the taller portion, that will be the main cladded with the limestone. But everything to the left of that will just be two: sort of a painted stucco beige to kind of match that cladding.

SPEAKER Is it an actual limestone or is it a cast stone?

It will be more like a pre cast stone. Yeah. Of course, if you guys really do want to see it, I don't mind going to my car and grabbing it.

I'm familiar with the product, so I would imagine it adds significant cost, though, to the construction.

Correct. Which is why we also have the alternate for the paint colors.

Okay.

Which will probably be with a scored stucco to at least kind of match those grout lines to kind of give that presence, give that strong concrete presence, showing that this is the sanctuary, the main part of one: the church. And has the applicant are they on board with making a material change and upgrading to a cast stone? The original intent is actually the stone. But now that we're going through bidding, they asked us for an option of a value engineer if it comes to once they get a final number.

Okay.

And Kelly, what's the maximum height on this? Is this is he's thirty five feet?

The maximum height is 35. What is it saying on there?

We're actually the tallest portion is at 34 foot nine.

And the height of the building of this type of building is measured from the midpoint of the roof. So it's actually less than 34.

Okay. All right. So there's 43 sites I should ignore.

Yeah. Okay.

We're using a manshed roof system too, just so

you're aware.

So what's happening with the existing sanctuary?

So the

church is still active using that if I'm not mistaken. And there's a phasing plan to actually keep that building and then the associated parking with it to construct sort of the parking for the new building and then the drainage associated with the site. And then once sort of the southern portion of the site is developed, then that existing facility will get demoed.

Demoed, flat and gone? Yes,

for the existing building, correct. Okay. And I think, I mean, other than that, it's just the site furnishings that Kelly had mentioned.

MR. Go back to that previous slide. Yep, right here. No, next one. You went through it quick.

Is it the rendering or?

It was a rendering.

Yeah, here

we go.

Okay. So looking at this slide, so tell me exactly where the cast stone would be instead of what you're showing here in terms of a value and engineer option.

All right. So all of this is stucco. Right. And then just this main sanctuary facade will be the cast stone. And at the tower, it will be only the wainscoting level, while above is the stucco.

So the cast stone on the upper portion next to the window with the cross and the lower?

Yes, sir. This would be an eight inches by 24 inches cladding, and this would be a 12 inches by 24 inches cladding.

MR. Like, I'm really good at spending everybody else's money. So I personally would favor the cast stone. JOSHUA Agreed. The texture of it is just It's a much richer look. I think it just it looks more natural. It separates this from just sort of a pedestrian sort of design to more elevated architectural style that I think would work very well. Overall, I love what you guys are doing. I think it's going to be a great addition to it. I'm really happy to see the growth of expansion of faith based institutions, regardless of what your beliefs are. So I think it's a real benefit to the community. So I would like to see this come back with the cast stone, which was, I think, the original design to begin with. Yes,

sir. So entrance into the property, as we're looking right here, is going to be over on as we're looking, it's going to be on the left. You're going to pull in.

Yes. It's going to be sorry, to the left of a so the access is just kind of the left or due north.

Okay. And the existing sanctuary, so for farther left, where's Correct, parking going to be?

Yes.

Where is parking going to be?

Oh, the parking is going to be so I'll show you kind of the site plan view. So where my cursor, if it's coming up, where my cursor is hovering is kind of where the existing sanctuary is.

Right.

The proposed building is more central to the site with parking proposed to the south along this eastern strip and then to the north.

What was the thinking of putting the playground in the front of the building, closest to the road?

We wanted to make sure that there was enough of a setback, and then to also work with this sort of main worship center design, and then the educational and office space wings to the east. So there is, again, sufficient landscape buffer as well as a fence to screen that. And we've been in coordination with staff during the site plan process.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

Any other comments?

My understanding is there's two fifteen parking spots.

Comments, anybody else? No. Okay. So how do we want to move this one forward, guys?

So the staff

Do we want to open

for public comment?

Got you. Motion to open up public comments. Second. All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Aye. Motion passes.

Don't have any.

Motion to close, public hearing.

Second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Motion passes. Okay. Look, I like it. My only recommendation would be to let's go back to the original material selection, which I think elevates the entire development and swap those materials out to the cast stone. That would be my motion for Petition 20 six-two ARB.

I'll second.

All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay. Thanks, guys.

Okay.

Up is petition number 2020Six-threeARB, Lotus Wellington one signs for Buildings 346 And 7.

Hi. Good evening. David Newell, Planning and Zoning Division. Again, before you is the Lotus Wellington signs for Buildings 346 And 7. This was before the board in May, where they requested the master sign plan, if you recall.

I know you've seen the Lowe's project several times. But this, again, to go over, it's the two buildings, or actually four buildings as soon as you come into site on the north and the south side of that Main Boulevard. The request again is to amend the previous approved master sign plan, which at that time the applicant wanted to have a uniform look with the channel letter signs, all the same color, all the same font. Since then, the tenants have provided feedback and requested that they allow them to have their own design, their own trademark. So the applicant is back requesting to amend the master sign plan to allow that.

So again, this, the the LDR does not require the the signs to be uniform. It just requires that if the applicant does propose that it be part of the master sign plan. So it's not a requirement of the LDR for them to be uniformed. This is some of the signs that were approved at staff level. With the idea that this is not necessarily a code requirement, but mainly a master plan condition.

And for this to come back to the board to finalize the document that were approved as part of this project. So again, in summary, these conditions that were previously approved will remain. The only condition that's really added to this is just to indicate that the tenant wall signs would be allowed to provide their, each tenant would be allowed to provide their own colors, font, design. The landlord will also provide approval indicating that they have reviewed the signs and approved them as it relates to those colors and the font. All other requirements, meaning the size, will remain as previously approved by the ARB.

So there will be no changes there. At this time, this concludes staff's presentation. And I'd like to enter this file into the record. The applicant is here to answer any of your questions.

Hi there. This is Rich Kasser with Lotus Wellington and Lotus Group. I don't think we I have a presentation. I don't think we need to go over it. It's it's pretty self explanatory and very simple. But, yeah, the request came from they came in front of this board in May 2025. And at that time, we really wanted a very uniform look with the white letters and they were, lower levels were floating on the on top of the the awnings and then the upper levels were actually on the building. And,

some of

the tenants that we spoke to were in favor of that. And then when it actually got approved and they went to go design their signs, they said, oh, no. You can't have colors or you can't have, you know, this. And and then they said, well, what? No. We want that. So, you know, we're we're not in in objection to anyone putting their own brand colors and stamps on the buildings. And I think those signs that are installed look very nice. So I'm here to answer any questions.

Question? Hi, Marie.

So the these buildings that we're looking at are facing State Road 7, or are these the buildings that are farther back on the property?

There's four buildings. Right. So Buildings 3 And 6 are the two story buildings. The primary signs on those face East State Road 7. So first level floats on the awning. Second level is actually on top of the building. Buildings 4 And 7, those have their primary signs face into the project. So Building 4 faces South, Building 7 faces north. And then their secondary signs are on the east side of the building. And those face east. But those are, those are smaller. Those are half the height of the primary signs.

Okay. Thank you.

And we're looking at no restrictions whatsoever as far as fonts, colors, lighting, anything with these?

So we look at them on a case by case basis. We did have one tenant that has a very, very loud logo. It's a big green triangle with their name diagonally. And we said no to that, that they would just have to do more lettering than anything else. So we review it from a landlord perspective. But we're not here to limit anyone's use of their own branding. But again, we'll we'll we'll do something that looks good and, you know, is within the spirit of the buildings.

Yeah. Thought the they did a really good job in the coffee shop with the cursive and actually better than I thought it would look. Yeah. So so you have your own internal review because obviously it devalues your property if it looks gaudy and crazy looking. Right?

Yeah. Yeah. And so some of the tenants upstairs have installed their signs. So Onyx Hospitality is one. We toned down a few of their colors. And then Soft Hands Dental, we worked with them on

the

font to space the letters out a little bit.

The project ultimately reflects on you, so you don't want it to look like

Yes.

Don't be scared to rein them in.

No, no, no. Trust me, I'm not afraid of them.

So appears that most of this is really internal in terms of how it's viewed by customers. Not much impact really on the 441 Corridor. So it's really internal. Does this create problems for you if we allow this? And then you've got tenants that have gone with the sort of uniform sign. How are you going to address that?

It's already been addressed, and it won't create any problems.

Okay.

The requirement at this point to be more uniformed? Has that created problems with potential tenants?

No. Because now we'll be able to allow them their own fonts within subject to internal review. And obviously, Damian, you know, any of these signs,

whether it's custom branded, you've got the size, color requirements, and the same standards apply.

Correct. The size of the sign, we have those requirements. In terms of the color, with this approval, there will be no restriction on the colors from a master plan, master sign plan perspective. In terms of lighting, there's still a requirement for that lighting to be white light. But again, in terms of the branding, the color of the wall sign itself, there's no restrictions with this approval.

And staff is comfortable with that, without having restrictions or some review of the Again,

we still review it. And if it was any other sign that came in, if it was part of their branding, we wouldn't restrict the branding, the color based on the branding. So that that is something that we already, we we can't restrict it. It's something that's required to for them to use their brand color. The only restriction was the fact that each project can have their own restriction and provide that as part of their approval, which we would continue that approval process as we review the building permits. Look,

I'd like a very uniform look, but I also understand that, you know, people make big investments in their companies and their brand. It's a big part of their operations. This is really more of an internal aesthetic than it is really impacting any of the major corridors. So I personally don't have a problem with it.

We'll hear that as well.

Yeah. Okay. We

open for public comment.

Make a motion to open public comment.

I'll second. All in favor?

Aye. Opposed? Hearing none. Kelly? Motion to close public hearing? Second. All in favor? Aye. Motion passes. Go ahead, let us take it.

No, I'll make a motion to approve twenty twenty six-three based on staff's recommendations.

I'll second. All in favor?

Aye.

Motion passes.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it. Busy night. I'm not used to all this. Gonna pay it over time.

Yeah. Two long nights.

Get off in

the top.

Thank you. Okay.

Next up is petition number 2026Dash0004DashARB, Life Church elevation and signage.

Good evening again john sandoval planner here for alleged Wellington I'm I will now be presenting position number 2026Dash0004DashARB Life Church renovations Owned by Life Covenant Church Incorporated, the parcel consists of eight point eight eight point five eight acres and the request for ARB to approve the elevation and signage for Life Church. The subject parcel is located at 3061 South State Road 7 near the K Park project with the church facility being built in 2009. Here are two images of the subject parcels existing conditions. Next is the proposed site plan for the new construction sorry, for the construction and renovations of Family Church I mean, Life Church. We now move on to the proposed elevations currently displayed are the east and west elevations.

And the following are the north and south proposed elevations. We move on to the technical deviations for the wall signs as displayed above sign one as a primary wall sign requesting a 24 foot box sign area deviation and a three inch height deviation. Sign two requires no deviations though an additional deviation is needed as a total combined sign area for both signs surpasses what is allowed by 63 square feet. Now we move on to the technical deviation for the monument sign. As displayed, you can see the current monument sign along with the new one being proposed.

For the proposed sign, the technical deviation is being requested for the four inches in height and 12.55 square feet in box sign area. Finally, we get to the condition of approval. If ARB votes to approve petition number 2026Dash0004Dash ARB And the renovations of Life Church, the staff will provide the following conditions of approval. Again, you for your time. I'm now open to questions.

John, these are the material samples Yes,

yes. Have that

being proposed.

We have the architect here as well.

Oh, shit. Sorry. Just tear it apart, John. Yeah.

Way to

do it, right? Well, to be fair, I don't think came in great condition. So my apologies for that. It had a rougher flight than I did.

You can charge the village.

I'm Ryan Walker. I'm the architect.

Could you put the microphone closer?

I can try. I have to get really close to it, I think. I'm Ryan Walker. I'm the architect with Life Church. And I'd be glad to talk through or answer any questions you have.

The first thing that popped out at me is we had an earlier application that presented some darker colors that didn't seem to get a lot of traction with this board here. I know we're not being asked to incorporate this into an improved color palette village wide. But I'm looking at this going, didn't I see something very similar about an hour ago.

I would also say that that color is more of

a secondary wall color. I think your primary is the lighter gray on the top.

Yeah. The heavier dark color that's associated with our auditorium is yeah. I'd I'd consider that a secondary color. The the medium and lighter gray tones are kinda more of the base color of the rest of the, remainder of the building are more prevalent. It does feel really heavy if you look at the back. I can't deny that at all.

The back face is basically

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shield of trees, right? Mean, it's going into the facing the athletic fields of the new school or something?

Correct.

Yes.

So it's not even visible, really?

Yes. It's, it's pretty pretty blocked off from any any views. I did I was looking at the renderings that, they're shown earlier, and I thought, oh, okay. Where where do we fit out with that? And, yeah, there's still that row of trees, and so it's it's hidden nicely.

And life and the school will be required to put a landscape buffer in there as well. So it will have double screening.

Yeah. I think the darker I mean, I'm looking at this compared to that other panel. Actually more of a

No, it's more of a lighter gray.

Not a stark. Like charcoal.

Yeah. It's also a highlight color, a trim for the front of it, like the base. The whole thing is like black.

And look, I mean, is a setback pretty far. Mean, personally, I'd like to see a little more coordination between the K Park proposed development and those architectural details and colors. I mean, I know you share a site, but there's significant separation between the two properties. I don't know if I have a big enough issue to make an issue out of it.

Well, we're we're open to doing whatever the whatever is needed

to do. What's your alternative?

Well, yeah, we could leave it. So in all actuality, and this the this the epitist behind us doing this renovation, this building's been here for going on seventeen years now. Crazy. And we have yeah. Isn't it? I felt like it was just built. I okay. So I was in college when this was built, and I I am I'm old now in my mind. I'm not

gonna play that game. If you ask my kids.

Right? So it's blown my mind. But since I've been on the team before I was on the team, we've started working toward just updating the aesthetic of what Life Church feels like nationwide. We have 45 campuses, and this is our typical color palette, floor plan, all all the things that kinda fit together that we we try to roll out nationally. But we're well aware that each jurisdiction, especially if Did you Particular I

know you're in communication with related Ross because you're doing the circle in the front and the entrance way that goes into the development on both sides as well as the school. It seems like your building is the closest kind of really to the hotel. And we don't know what the aesthetic of the hotel is going to be and I don't think we should hold you responsible for that obviously. But it'd be nice to see kind of an ethos kind of develop within the project. Mean, this is pretty toned down. It's not like bright yellow. But that'd be nice. But we don't really know what that's going be yet.

Oh, those are West Palm Beach.

So these were submitted as part of the application. They were omitted from it. It was supposed to be exhibit exhibit. Yeah.

But they look spicy.

Supposed to be exhibit e, but it was omitted from that packet. But this is they provided this to just show you what it would look like in in real life using the similar materials.

Yeah.

Let me see. I think there might be another picture. Yeah. That's the well, this is the rendering of West Palm. This isn't the rendering of Wellington, but you could see

And at a location like West Palm, they they had a lot of requirements, you know, more stone, more parapet considerations, and and things of that nature. So, yeah, it's it's one of our favorite ones to show. It's one of our prettier buildings.

It's very nice. I'm not going to try to persuade anybody to vote this down. As was mentioned, we still have some uncertainty with sort of the closest building proximity to you guys and to try to create a more uniform look. If you guys are open to the idea of saying, we're not there's no sense of urgency for us to get this redone. If you're willing to wait to see what kind of comes back to this committee, we're happy to revisit it. If you're looking for a thumbs up or thumbs down tonight, we can do that.

And that's more what we're looking for. This project was slated to begin construction this year, and we have a team geared up that bid on it. They're kinda ready to go, and it fits in with we are we're on building 20 or so of our national renovations. So obviously, we'd we'd like to do it today if we could, and we'd be more than willing to to listen, though, if we if we can't.

I mean, I certainly wouldn't let this influence any ideas for the hotel or your neighbor to the north there. And I don't know if I have a strong enough opinion against it to Well, interfere with your plans. In

construction time. Go

to the West Palm Beach facade? See, there's not as much dark there, John.

No, that's what I mean. That's, you know, when I look at sort of the packet that we were given in some of the earlier images, you know, that's when I get, okay, wait a second. Are we going get in trouble for denying one and approving the other? But looking at this image, if we're going to be sort of in line with the aesthetics of this and the color palette materials. Again, I don't have enough of an issue. I would prefer to wait and see what the hotel comes back. But I don't want to interfere with your construction plans either. It's just not a hot enough topic for me to hold this

up. We've we've tried internally, we've reviewed everything going on with the development to the north and tried to just pull inspiration from that and seeing that it's it's coming along. We're hoping to be wrapped up before they begin, though, because, well, they're they're gonna be there a minute. It's gonna be a bit of a bit of a fun project for them, but that's that's why we're trying to bring up our standard and, really just polish off our existing facility. So it's at least inviting and new feeling with that newness.

And Kelly, just to be clear then from a staff perspective, obviously, early application, I mean, it's very different in terms of what we were looking at, adding a color to our chart versus using some of these tones as more trim and accent. Any concerns? No. Okay. I don't have an issue, so anybody else can weigh in.

Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Let's open public Okay.

To open public comments.

I second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed, no? Hearing none, motion is approved. Kelly, motion to close public comments. Second? Second. All in favor? Motion passes. Okay. What would we like to do, guys?

I'll make a motion to approve twenty twenty six-four based on staff's recommendations. I second that.