Architectural Review Board - Regular Meeting

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We'll take it off a minute early, considering we know that everybody's here right now. Welcome, everybody, to the Wednesday, September 16th meeting of the Planning, Zoning, and Adjustment Board. I'll call this meeting to order. I will waive any remarks by Chairman. And if you can stand, we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance. of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. And I'll take a motion to have approval of the minutes from the June 17th meeting. I move. Thank you. I have a first. Do I have a second?

Second.

Thank you. And all those in favor of approving the minutes from the June 17th meeting, say aye.

Aye.

Any opposed? Aye. Okay. Passes unanimously. I'm guessing that since our agenda is limited to one item, there's probably not any deletions, reorderings, but we're good? Yes, sir. Okay. Excellent. Do you want to do swearing into speakers?

Yes. If you would raise your right hand, do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Okay. And we need to do ex parte disclosures, please.

Yes. Starting with Mr. Mishkin.

I have nothing to disclose, no ex parte this time.

Cool. No disclosure. I also have no disclosures.

I have disclosures. I spoke to Johnny Meyer. I spoke to Kelly. I spoke to Phoebe Wesley, David King, and Jeremy Green. And it was all about the overall proposal for tonight. And I can remain fair and impartial.

Thank you. Thank you. I have none. Excellent.

Okay. So no old business. So we'll open up new business. Resolution number R2026-45, Wellington Village Conditional Use for Building Height. Ms. Ferriolo, are you going to kick us off? Yep. Okay.

Good evening, Kelly Ferriolo, Planning and Zoning. Before you tonight is petition 2026-0003-CU, a conditional use request to amend the maximum building height of the previously approved buildings D1 and D2 from 42 feet to 48 feet, shown in purple and yellow on the screen, and to allow a building height of 37 feet for building E1, shown in blue, and 39 feet for building E2, shown in brown. Wellington Village, also known as K-Park, is located on the southwest corner of Stribling and State Road 7, for which I would like to enter all files into the record. The agent urban design studios on behalf of the agent are here to make their presentation first and staff will make a follow-up presentation Okay

Thank you, Kelly. Good evening, board members. Lindsay Jean-Louis with Urban Design Studio on behalf of Related. Ross, here before you tonight is a conditional use request for the building heights for D1, D2, and E1 and E2. Just to give some context, at the end of, I believe it was December 2025, your village council approved the text amendment essentially requiring all buildings above 35 feet to go to require council approval for approval of those height requests. And that code also outlines some additional supplemental regulations that applicants have to abide by. We, for this project, actually previously received condition use height approval on buildings D1, D2, G4, and the hotel for building H. The issue tonight will be a requested new height for D1 and D2, and then buildings E1 and E2, which were not previously included in the request. For context, building G4, we did get condition to use site approval, but that building is now going below 35 feet, so that's been revised to be below 35 feet. And the hotel is not... as a part of tonight's decision. So it's really D1, D2, and E1, and E2. And to give some context, we did go before your architectural review board on September 1st, 2026, and received ARB approval for all buildings with the exception of the hotel, which again, already received that conditional use height approval. And we also have a staff recommendation of approval for the request. And here's the site which I know we're all familiar with, located at that southwestern corner of Stribling Way and State Road 7. And now I'm going to take the time to transfer to Kevin Ryan with Related Ross to speak more to the overall design of the Wellington Village on the Pod B site. Thank you.

Good evening, board members. Again, Kevin Ryan, executive vice president at Related Ross, the party and the company responsible for this project. So I think it's helpful to provide context for everybody that may not know all the familiarity with the project. But it has two components, which you see on screen. There's the school component, Wingrove Academy. Tonight, we're focused on the right half of the screen, which is the Related Ross Development Project. And I'm going to walk you through that. It covers 28 acres, and that's north of Life Church and east of the road that runs north-south. Important for context is this aerial is looking at the project, looking northwest. Life Church on the left in the foreground is State Road 7. The northern boundary is Stribling. And what you can see throughout the project, it's actually a very low density. It's largely one- and two-story buildings throughout the project. The only, and I'll show you the couple exceptions where there's just about three or four buildings that are three stories, only billions above that is the hotel, which is seven floors. So these acronyms you're seeing on the screen, D1, D2, E, those are, I'm not sure how well you can see the screen, but the D1, D2 is on the middle on the bottom, and the E1, E2 is directly above that. And I'll provide some more context. But what you're seeing in the screen is different colors. The gold is generally reflecting different dining options. The salmon color is retail. These are things that will tend to move around a little bit. But you can see that this is very much a open, low scale, walkable environment. The purple is the hotel. This is actually the second floor level, and you can now see more clearly the two buildings, the one marked E that's sort of a pink color. That's actually a fitness center, 37,000 square feet. We're in discussions with a specific tenant. It has ground level access. The building immediately down screen or south is the building that we're talking about, D1, D2. In both cases, they're really one building that are connected by bridges on the second level. It happens that there's a basale that cuts them in half at ground level, hence the breakdown. And this is just the third level. Just a quick tour to give a sense for when I speak to scale that you can see it visually. This is actually a gateway, what we call a gateway entry. It's directly behind you would be Trader Joe's. This is entering from Stribling, heading into the project. You can see single-story buildings on your left and straight forward, a two-story building on the right. This is actually a corresponding entry off State Road 7. Again, mostly one- and two-story buildings. This is a street access going into a pedestrian promenade in the background. Again, many various public spaces throughout the project, heavily landscaped, very spacious in terms of its approach, not urban, much more intentionally village-like. This is actually a Paseo or main walkway where it's pedestrian only. It's running east-west throughout the project. This is generically we're calling it Hotel Street right now. You can see at the end of the axis is the seven-story hotel. The building on the left is what we're speaking about. That's actually a ground-level retail, second-level office, and third-level office as well.

Which building did you say that was?

D1. This is the D1, D2 on the left in this evening view. You see sort of the green bands.

What's straight ahead?

The straight ahead is the hotel at the end of the street. Okay. So this is the same building, just viewed daytime. So this is a more recent design, the one that has the extra four to five feet. Essentially, it's tenant-driven decisions to raise the building slightly per floor. Because of the scale of the spaces on the ground level, we wanted to raise about two feet. another foot in the office for more specifically meeting Class A requirements. And we have a tenant on the third floor, a co-working tenant that also wanted some additional height. So we were early enough in the design process to be able to raise it. So those are the changes, the rationale. I think these are side-by-side comparison. So what we just showed you was on the left. On the right was the predecessor that was approved by the ARB in January. Between January and more recently, we actually refined and improved the design, including raising of the feet. So we also enhanced the appearance of the building as well. And that was what was approved by ARB just recently on the left. Directly across the street, this is the one that has the fitness center. You can actually see it spanning over the Paseo. This is retail, the ground level, dining, and this is a significant fitness complex. And generally speaking, it's actually under 35 feet. What you see on screen is under 35 feet. There are certain portions that have some peak roofs that were the peak math. The math of the peak takes you to over 35 feet.

Just one moment on that, if you can go back to that slide for one second. The fitness building, so is that the fitness area, is that on ground level or is that the second story?

That's a good question. So everything you see at street level is retailers, different retail spaces. The walkway that you see on the right side is actually moving north through the project as a pedestrian walkway the entrance to the fitness is actually off screen it's to the left so there is primarily a ground level vestibule and i think there's a small sort of juice bar and then mainly the fitness center is across the center it's 35 000 square feet it has all the different components you would see in a first class fitness center and so the x the exterior covered uh patio area that's part that's like off of the fitness center is that yeah there's actually two i think there's two views here uh so this is more easterly. So you can see the Paseo would be, the Paseo you were seeing in the prior screen is just left. So this is actually, the one on the right is off a yoga studio and the other one is off sort of the strength and weight training area. So these are intended to be outdoor workout areas during this cooler months. But I think everything you see here is under 35 feet. So we probably should have shown a view where there was, but again, it's only, there's a certain areas that have peak roofs. So that's high level. If you have any questions, I can respond to or go back to the plan if there's any, give you an opportunity to ask any questions if you have any.

This fitness center and all the things that you're talking about, they're currently hypothetical? You don't have anything signed?

No. Well, we have letters of intent and leases in progress on this fitness center specifically. So what you're seeing has been not only taken through initial stages of a lease, it's been customized to meet the perimeter. We've made adjustments. terms of layout actually these canopies you see were added at the request we have a very specific tenant in mind we haven't signed the lease but extremely high probability we will sign this lease and then across the street we do have Tenant on the upper floor and it's not an individual. It's a co-working space Sort of a we works kind of environment. So that's the entire floor so we do have a lease in progress with that tenant and they're the one of the ones that we would they wanted a little bit of extra ceiling height and If something should happen and you don't sign the lease with the fitness company, yes What would you do with that space? It's pretty much specifically designed to be a fitness complex. So we would find an alternate user. It's Certainly as a shell, you know, it's just in general when you have a tenant it would be an open air open space it would be 35,000 square feet of space that would be very Reusable probably under some design refinements with a different tenant, but we have pretty very high expectations We'll sign a lease with this specific

So just to- Was it in building E that the fitness, building E was the one that the fitness center had, right? And it was built, yeah, okay, perfect. And D was, okay.

So just again, it helps, for me at least, it always helps to look at the plan is on the ground level, Hotels to the left. There's a motor court. The actual entry to the fitness complex is off that motor court. And then it spans across what is labeled as two buildings and looks like two buildings. But then when you go to the second floor, you can see they're connected by, it's more than a bridge. It's a overpass over the, or a widened bridge over the Paseo that runs north-south. But everything we try to do here is a high level of variety and architecture, a very village-like experience in terms of hopefully what you're seeing on screen is capturing that essence. And the fitness center has always been a use that we thought was very important for the project and for the community. And so we're happy that we have a specific tenant there. I think I might have skipped some other components here for you. Do you want to pick up?

Thank you so much, Kevin. So again, that's just kind of the architectural overview. Now to get into the code specifics that qualify the additional height requested. Section 631 of the development regulations require that any building meeting that 35 feet in height or exceeding that 35 feet in height has to meet the following requirements. Our site for the specific pod is 24.05 acres, so we exceed the minimum acreage of two acres. We also meet the land use requirement which requires that those buildings within residential EFGH have to be located within a planned development and shall be within 500 linear feet of a collector road or road with higher classification. We're actually in a land use MU, so it's not applicable, but even with that, we still comply with the requirement that we're within a planned development within 500 linear feet of State Road 7, which is a principal arterial. We meet the required conditional setbacks for the added height and we also meet the required conditional setbacks for anything adjacent to single family properties as we're set back rather far away from any of the nearest single family. This chart just depicts the requirement of the setback for each building. As you can see in green is our provided setbacks, and we significantly exceed each as the code essentially prescribes that for every additional foot of height that you're requesting, you have to set back the building an additional foot. We also meet the design criteria, which requires that we're meeting three or more of the following design criteria. In this instance, our site is providing electric vehicle charging stations, we're providing pedestrian streetscape enhancement through the village design, and we're also accomplishing a LEED-based building design of Florida green building certification of silver or higher. And here we just see the proposed setbacks for buildings E1 and E2, which again are significantly above the base requirement. And similarly so for D1 and D2. And we also have landscape requirements that we have to comply with, which prescribe that of the plantings and specifically the palms that you plant in the foundation planning of the respective building, 25% of those plantings have to have a gray wood at one third of the building height or higher. And then another 25% have to have a gray wood of a minimum of 12 feet in height. And just to give you guys some earlier context, we did get a council-approved deviation to allow for our foundation planting to not necessarily be immediately adjacent to the building, but to be in some of the planters that are still framing that building, that are still accomplishing the foundation planting without having that continuous area. And our foundation planning that we're providing is still equivalent to the required square footage otherwise. So you can see on the right-hand side of the image, Building D1, whereas we're proposing seven palms in the foundation planning area, we're providing three Mexican fan palms, which are going to be spec'd at 22-foot minimum graywood height, and then two date palms, which are going to be spec'd at 22-foot minimum graywood height. And for Building D2, we're providing three palms, and two of those palms are going to be at 22-foot in graywood height. For building E1, we are providing seven palms in the foundation planting, and we're providing three date palms at that 22-foot minimum graywood height and one Mexican fan palm at that 22-foot minimum graywood height. And similarly so for building E2, we are providing nine palms in the foundation planning area. And we're meeting this requirement by providing four date palms at 22 foot minimum graywood height, and then two Mexican fan palms at 22 foot minimum graywood height. And again, I do want to highlight that the requirement here is 12.2 and 12. So again, we're exceeding that by more than 10 feet in every instance, or in this instance. And here we just kind of can see how some of those foundation planning areas are calculated and the POMs that are within those areas. So that concludes our presentation. We're happy to answer any questions, and we'll hand it off to staff.

Unless any of the other members object, we could listen to the staff report before we take questions. Is that good?

Yeah, I'd like that.

Okay. Ms. Ferriolo?

Just going back to a little bit of the history of the project, in January of 2025, Council executed a purchase agreement with Related Ross to purchase the property upon receiving entitlements for mixed-use development. In February, Council approved the rezoning master plan and conditional use requests to develop the mixed use project with residential, commercial, office, a private school, and a hotel. In March of 2026, council approved a conditional use for building heights over 35 feet for buildings H, D1, D2, and G4. And the applicant tonight is requesting additional height increases for buildings D1 and D2, and E1 and E2. 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. 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 1,600 feet from Oakmont Estates to the west. And then like Lindsay said, projects that propose buildings greater than 35 feet are required to include at least three community benefits. K-Park is including electric charging stations throughout the site. They incorporate promenades and plazas as well and they will be required to be lead based design or Florida green building coalition design certification or higher The LDR and adopted project standards manual require increased setback for buildings taller than 35 feet and this table provides the required setback based on the height of the buildings 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 buildings. The palms circled in the next few slides are required to have a gray wood of 12 to 16 feet, depending on the height of the buildings, and 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. 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. Based on the analysis provided in the staff report, staff has determined that the request meets the criteria of the comprehensive plan and the land development regulations and comply with the requirements for a conditional use. The conditions of approval are provided for in Resolution R2026-45, and the Architectural Review Board recommended approval at their last meeting with a 6-0 vote. And this concludes staff's presentation.

Thank you. Okay, open it up to questions of the applicant or staff.

How many charging stations are going to be included in the parking areas?

We are proposing 22 EV spaces, so that might be 11 stations that will serve the two spaces each.

Okay, I have some questions.

Go for it.

You said that the hotel is seven floors. What's the height?

That height is 86 feet. And just to go back to the earlier comment on the recently adopted code amendment, the village council approved in December 25 a code amendment which allowed an additional 20% height increase above 72 feet, whereas there is additional supplemental requirements between landscape and setbacks to request that height. And that height is also the absolute maximum. It can't allow any mechanical equipment or anything to exceed that 86 feet. And we did receive conditional use council approval on that hotel height.

Okay. Don't go anywhere. Yep. I know we're not talking about the school yet. Is the school a definite?

Just for clarification, he can certainly answer your question, but that is not part of this application, so you would not be able to base your determination on that information.

Right, so the school has gone through the whole approval process. They've advanced their design. We are of course are a Support of them in many ways, but they are working independently on their own They're in the middle of the financing and funding campaign. I know that they're quite advanced in the progress They've made but they're not a hundred percent to the point where they were ready to release Construction so they're in a fundraising stage and that's as much as I can speak to it. Okay, so

So have there been any height discussions for the school?

Let's see. Yeah.

Not as of yet, but again, for anything that the school proposes above 35 feet, that's going to require the similar condition to use height process, which will go to your board for the recommendation, ARB for recommendation, and ultimately the council for approval. And that will also have to comply with the same landscape and conditional setback requirements. And all buildings will also have to go to the ARB for approval as well.

OK. When you talked about the setback requirements, every one of those buildings is an internal building to the whole project.

Correct.

I'd like to know what the setbacks are for the buildings that are in between those buildings. And the road.

Yeah. So generally on the perimeter of our project, most of that perimeter condition is one story. And generally it's about a 25 foot setback to that one story phase. And it's been designed where we focus some of that, the more higher buildings within the site to the central to be less impactful from a step back perspective.

And if those buildings that we're talking about today were on the edge of your project, would they have to be set back further in order to?

Correct. They would have to be set back further, kind of consistent with the proposed height to comply. So, you know, for example, if it was a 40-foot building and you're asking for that additional five foot of setback, that 25 now becomes 30 as far as a required setback.

So in order for you to make those buildings higher, you would have to change the design of the entire project and move those buildings inward?

Correct. It would either be that or asking for some sort of deviation, which again would come before your board and ultimately the council for approval.

OK.

I just had a question about for the parking. There's no parking in, I have this one that I'm looking at, but I prefer the one that you guys showed on your slides with the larger footprint, if you can pull that up.

Actually, I think this one is more helpful. So would you like me to just give a quick overview of the parking?

Well, I was just going to ask. So I was going to say, so there's the Paseo, and then there's surface lots on the northern, northwestern edge and on the south. I guess, southwestern-ish. There's a little one on the southeastern side, too. And then there's that middle lot in there. What are you anticipating for... I was just thinking of the fitness side. Is there going to be any, like, valet inside there?

Are you thinking about... Yes. First of all, there is an additional component. So you're correct. There's... Two major lots on the northwest and southwest. The southwest runs most of the way across the property. There's actually one in the center if you look north of the E1 building. So there's three lots. Then we have, I forget the exact number, but there is angled parking and parallel parking along the entire street, which adds a fairly significant component of parking as well. We do plan to have valet parking provided all hours of the project. There are actually Two locations where there's permanent destinational valet stands. One is maybe a little hard to see, but it's on the left side or west side of the central parking lot. There's a little rectangle there. That's a destination valet parking, the hotel motor court. We'll also have destination valet parking serving not just the hotel, but all the restaurants around it. And we are set up to actually set up temporary valet stations in other locations. There's a heavy dining component. to the project, so we do plan on running valet parking all the time. Okay. Great.

One of the things I was going to say, actually, is that I really appreciate the design change on the D1 in terms of stepping the building. I think that's a really positive architectural development, so I'm glad that that was included. The two buildings... So the... The E buildings are remaining at two stories, and then the D buildings are going to be the ones that go up to three. So I think that ultimately, are you having larger, in terms of the ceiling height for the downstory of the E buildings and against the fitness center? I'm guessing that the height is sort of asymmetric with the second floor probably receiving more height clearance than the first, or is it equally distributed?

Are you talking about E or D?

Sorry, I was talking about E, E1 and E2 for the two-story buildings.

Yeah, I think it's generally within the interior, a uniform height. There are certain, maybe I think there's a couple areas that pop up, and they're just architecturally are some places where there's a flat roof and other places where there's a peaked roof, which are creating the over 35. But I'm pretty sure it's a uniform, but it's pretty tall. It's a pretty tall space.

Yeah, I was going to say, I mean, it seems like generous floor heights.

Yeah, it is tall heights within, I mean, they're large-scale yoga studios and fitness and wellness. Yeah.

Staff, Kelly, do you mind just going over with us, too, because we don't tend to step on any ARB toes or any questions about that, but what scope of approvals do they issue in terms of what their jurisdiction is and if any changes or deviations from the renderings that they received? I'm assuming there's some latitude that staff may have or may not, I don't know, but in terms of what they approve?

Yeah, so they approve the elevations, the colors, materials. I mean, at the time, the building height, but these are over 35, so that wouldn't apply. But they would approve all of what the exterior looks like.

Well, if the aesthetic delivers on the- Just for clarification, so the submittal package to ARB included every building, every elevation, all sides. And we had renderings for many of them, so it was not just elevation. So effectively, it was a building by building, material by color endorsement. It's my understanding if we make a change in materials or colors, we do need to go back to ARB for changes. But they effectively approved everything that you saw. It's great.

Well, I would go on record as saying that I think the aesthetic looks strong. So I have good endorsement on them, and well done by you guys.

Quick question. The office building, the space that you said is similar to WeWork. You said that the request for additional height was driven by a potential tenant?

It was a kind of an iterative process. I mean, one is we felt, because of the size of the building, just general assessment, we raised, I think, the retail height about a foot and a half or two feet. And then for Class A standards, we raised the middle floor another foot. And just, I think, because of the tenant, and it's typically these sort of Co-working spaces tend to have individual work areas, but they also have a lot of common areas So they tend to like to have taller Heights within the common area. So we raised the height understanding. It was a co-working tenant so it was partially tenant driven and partly just our judgment and

Okay.

And back to the valet. Sure. You said that the valet was going to run any time anything in the complex is open? Is that what you said?

Yeah, during all hours of operation, we plan to have valet.

What hours do you expect the fitness to be open?

That's actually a good question. VALLEY IS RUNNING MOSTLY, I'M NOT SURE IF WE'LL BE RUNNING 7 A.M. IN THE MORNING, BUT THE FITNESS CENTER WILL OF COURSE OPEN VERY EARLY. THE VALLEY WILL RUN 9 TO 10 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THERE IS VERY CONVENIENT AND ADJACENT SURFACE PARKING. but during most of the hours when the club would be open there would be valet in place and very convenient to the main entrance just literally across on the motor court so they could choose to valet and then that valet would be all the time actually it's at the hotel so that one's in seven days a week 24 7.

Yeah, so in a previous life, I actually worked for both Equinox and Lifetime Fitness.

That's a good background.

Yeah.

Yeah, so I have a very strong background in the fitness world and super well aware of the hours that the general, you know, generally the gym is the most busy. So, of course, we have those early morning prior to work hours, which we're not going to have a parking problem. Then, because your restaurants and your stores are going to be closed. But then we have the after work crowd, which is the same as the happy hour crowd. And if your stores are still open on nice evenings, I see that as being an issue. I see, I don't know, I don't care how many valets you have, have you, you know, I'm sure that your parking spots meet the Village of Wellington's minimum requirement.

Yeah, they do.

Right. But I don't see the project being as successful if people can't get to where they want to go. You're trying to make a yoga class. You can't sit in a line waiting for somebody to valet your car. Have you done the studies and figured out how many people you think are going to be there? Yes, we have.

It's been a very extensive process of not just parking and internal, but dealing with external traffic volumes, issues that already exist without our even – know before the traffic issue exists today and the incremental impact we've gone through extensive uh parking studies impact and parking generation parking calculations in these mixed use project there is what's called the shared parking analysis so you look at every use whether it's office retail dining hotel and they each have their own peak patterns so you overlay all these not you know different times of day, different weeks, look for the peak periods. And so we've done all that traffic analysis. So there are some uses that are low at that point. For example, the office tends to be winding down about 4 or 5 o'clock. So we're pretty comfortable and have worked with the specialists, and the village has approved it and done detailed analysis themselves. We're quite comfortable with the parking. We do think the valet is important to have, but also there's a lot of self-parking as well. So you can choose to do either. But I think that the, and particularly where the valet is going to be most, is most intensive is going to be in that 530 to 7 period. And so we do have ability to go beyond the two destination ones there all the time. We have different plans on how to amp up our two additional locations where we can do temporary valet during peak periods. Hope to have that. It would be a great problem to have if we have that level of demand, but we think we're properly sized.

Yeah.

um real quick do you is this going to be like the last time you think you might ask for a variation on the height or do you foresee anything else coming up i don't know how far on the design process is so i'm just kind of curious to For these buildings in particular. I don't know about the rest of the project.

Just for these, for D1, D2, you want to need to... We are in advanced construction documents. We're 50% construction documents heading towards 100% in the next month or so. So I don't... Our construction team would be very upset if we came back and changed the height. So I don't think we're going to be doing that. Perfect. Thank you.

Good question.

And just to be on the record, too, we obviously approved sort of the maximum sizes by uses when they did the original master plan. We're not changing any of the use count. All right. Any other questions? We've got to open for public comment, don't we? Does anybody have a motion for that?

I'll make a motion to open public comment.

Great. Do we have a second? A second. Okay. We got two seconds. All right. Everybody in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Public comment is open. Seems like you did a good job on the neighborhood outreach. Either that or people were asleep at the switch. All right. I'll entertain a motion to close public comment. All right. A second? Second. Great. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Any more questions of staff or the applicant? Okay, hearing none, I'd be open to entertaining a motion if anyone feels so compelled.

Make a motion to accept the changes in height requirements.

Okay.

And to approve Resolution 2026-45.

Thank you. I was just going to try to give him the numbers myself. You already had them, Lori. That's great. Okay. So I have a motion. A second? Second. Okay. Two seconds again. You guys are in lockstep. All right. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. It sounds like we're concluded. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. I'm guessing that the public that's here doesn't care to make any additional comments. And any comments from staff on preview of coming attractions or anything like that? No?

Well, you may be seeing the Wellington Green Mall proposal come through in the next month. Okay. The meeting is planned for October 1st. I'm sorry, 21st.

Our meeting.

That is all I really have right now.

OK. Great. All right. Any comments from the board?

Yes.

Yes, go. Please.

So first, I'd like to thank the people who came to the meeting tonight. And I just want to go on the record saying that I think that being appointed to this board is important. And I take my appointment seriously. And I am very disappointed that not the entire board does. We have not met since June. We missed two meetings. And we knew this date very far in advance. And I think that if the people that are given the responsibility of being on this board don't take it seriously, that those spots should be open for people that are going to take it seriously.

Just as a, not that it's for any discussion, but one of your board members had a family medical emergency, which is why they're not here. And the other one had a work emergency, which is at a state, possibly federal level. So I don't know. I mean, I understand where you're coming from, but I just wanted to let you know that those absences are excused.

But it's also important to note that we are volunteers. We're not paid. And I think work, employment trumps this. A family matter trumps this. Going on vacation may not. So I think there are things that are critical.

Yeah, and I'm not going to get into whether the absences that are excused or not, because I'm not going to get into where people may or may not really be. I just wanted to go on record thanking the people that did come, because we all have to make sacrifices to be here.

Well, thank you. I appreciate that, and I'm glad that you enjoy it. You're very welcome, John. Because I do appreciate serving on this board and appreciate all of you. All right, any other comments? No? All right. Well, have a great night. It sounds like the rain's opened up on us, I think. So I might be encamped for a while. But thanks, everyone.

Thanks. Thank you very much. Thank you.