By the way, we can't win. We can't get in. We get in that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright. Yeah.
You no idea. Yeah, yeah yeah. She. Yeah yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. All right good morning
everybody. This is the meeting of the Escambia County Planning Board for March the 3rd, 2026.
It's called to order. We do have eight members present. So we do have a quorum. This
reminder to put your phones on silent or turn them off while we're in the meeting. And if
you would, please stand and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge allegiance?
Allegiance to the flag 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. All right. Do
we have proof of publication? Yes, sir. The publication meet the legal requirements? Yes,
sir. I'll entertain a motion to waive the reading of the legal advertisement. So we've got a
motion to have a second. Perfect. All those in favor, please signify by raising your
right hand. Okay. Motion carries. The planning board meeting minutes for January the
6th have been provided to the board members. I'll entertain a motion to accept the planning
board meeting minutes into evidence. If we have no changes, do we have a motion? So moved a
motion. Second. Second. Second. All right, all those in favor, please signify by raising your
right hand. All right. Motion carries. The planning board hearing package for March 3rd
has been provided to the board members. I'll entertain a motion to accept into. So moved.
Thank you. Do we have a second? Second? All right. All those in favor, please signify. Raise
your right hand. All right. Motion carries. We do have two cases to be heard today. During
the regular meeting. The small scale future land use map amendment application for
consideration is case SSA 2020 602. This request a future land use change of 1500 West Quintet
Road block from RC. The rural community flew to muse mixed use suburban flu requested by
Meredith Bush, the agent for 1500 Quintet Road LLC. The owner staff was notice of the
hearing sent to all parties. Yes sir, and was notice of the hearing posted on the subject.
Property. Yes, sir. All right, staff, can you please present the maps and photographs for
this case? Good morning. Board. Caleb McCarty, ACP planner for Escambia County. First we have
our location map showing the property just down from highway 29 on West Quintet Road. The
500 foot radius map shows the zoning of rural mixed use. We want to note that the previous
zoning designation, which this future land use change relies upon, is v five as village five
of our previous zoning. The current future existing future land use is rural community RC,
and the proposed future land use for this request is mixed use suburban. There are some
wetlands on the northern portion of the property. And also flood zone areas to the
north as well. This is a aerial. The property is currently vacant that we could tell. Our
notice of public hearing sign placed along West Quintet Road there. This is looking west
along West Quintet, looking northwest onto the site. It's wooded site. This is looking
north onto the site as well, looking northeast to give us a view and looking east along
West Quintet. It's looking directly south across West Quintet from the site. That
concludes our maps and photography for this case. All right. Thank you very much.
With the applicant, please come forward. State your full name and address. For the record.
Meredith Bush, 314 South Bailen Street, suite 108, Pensacola, Florida 32502. Here on behalf
of the applicant. All right. And you received a copy of the hearing package with staff's
analysis, I did. All right. Go ahead and make your presentation. Thank you. I can
be brief this morning. We are in agreement with staff's analysis just running through
the small scale amendment criteria. There is an identified land use needs, and
the request is based upon professional practices. The parcel is less than 50 acres.
It does not involve a text change and the property is not within a designated area of
critical state concern. Going through the compatibility criteria, let's see where we
are. So average annual daily traffic in the vicinity of the project, 22,500 trips in the
area along North Highway 29, with 1350 trips along West Quintet Road. There's
infrastructure available through sanitary sewer and water. As staff indicated,
there are wetlands on the site. It's within the Jacks Branch drainage basin. Solid waste
there's plenty of capacity through Ecua and the Perdido Landfill. The proposed
amendment is not anticipated to have any impact on school capacity at Jim Allen, Ransome
Middle or Tate High School, there are no historic or archeological resources on the
site. This, as staff indicated, does relate to the prior future land use. We have a I'm sorry,
the prior future zoning. We have a savings clause application in and the I'm
sorry what devil was sign o which horse is indicated. He will definitely sign that the
future land use amendment is tied to that savings clause application. So we're reverting
back to the Vr5 in order to have some residential development that will allow
clustering away from those wetlands. And I'm happy to take any questions. All right.
Thanks, Meredith. Board, do you have any questions for the applicant? All right. Seeing
none. Any questions for staff. All right. We don't have any speakers for this today. So I
will entertain a motion if someone would like to make one motion to approve. I got a
motion to have a second. Second. Any discussion on the motion? All those in favor, please
signify by raising your right hand. All right. Motion carries. Next, we'll move on to small
scale future land use map amendment application for consideration. It's SSA 2020
603 request for a future land use change of Bower Road. Parcel number 20 seven. Dash
two, dash 31 2202. Dash 000000 from conservation flu to public flu as requested by Escambia
County, the owner of the property staff was notice of the hearing sent to all parties
was notice of the hearing posted on the subject. Property. Yes, sir. All right. And if I
can have you present the maps and photographs for this case. All right. Again, this small
scale map amendment is shown along Bower Road just north of Atlantis. Here, the current
zoning map shows that it is conservation zoning district. The existing future land use is
also conservation. This request is to change the future land use to public. There are some
wetlands indicated at the bottom associated with the lake north of the subdivision there,
and there's also some flood zone areas within the vicinity. This is an aerial map of the
property. This is a notice of public hearing sign that we required to place on the
property. Looking north along Bower Road. This is looking northeast onto the site from
Bower Road. This is also looking onto the site from Bower Road and looking south
along Bower Road and across from the subject property is a wooded lot as well. That
concludes our maps and photography for this case. All right. Thank you very much. So
since the county is the applicant, I don't know if there's any member of staff
that is wanting to represent. The county today, but certainly would have you come forward or
speak? Certainly we have. Mr. David Cordingly with Facilities Management. This project is
associated with a county project, and David may provide a little bit more detail there.
Great. Good morning everybody. David Cordingly, I'm relatively new with the county and the
county architect. So this is about roughly 5.2 acres that we originally purchased from the
Navy with the intent to build a new fire station out on Bower Road. So this is to for fire
protection for for the Paradise Beach area. This was a package with also Myrtle Grove that
you'll see we're doing four of them because all four of them are kind of zoned. I'm not sure
why this one was recreation, but it I think it relates with the property to the West, which
is all public. The idea is to get it as close to to Bower Road as possible, using the
natural vegetation as a buffer to that wetlands in the back. We don't have any intention of
accessing that waterway. And then I know there's some houses to the north and to the south
that will use that vegetation to, to buffer as well. It'll be about an 8 to 10 bed, 2 to 3
bay, relatively small fire station. So, so the county has engaged with the engineering
firm that has conducted a pre-application with the with development services. The issue
obviously, what brings us here is that the conservation zoning doesn't allow for much of
anything, some passive recreational type of uses, trails, those type of things.
It doesn't allow for any residential density. The requested change to public also
does not allow for residential density if there's any concerns related to that, but it does
allow for public, federal, state, local infrastructure, public offices, those type of
things. We understand the intent is the fire station. If the board was to approve this
application, then the engineering firm would then continue the development review
process. That's right. Yeah. Right now it's just early on. We're just doing some soil
testing right now. It's been surveyed and that's that's it. Right. All right. And if I may.
Yes, sir. And you know, you know, and even with the Rezonings, we really don't look
at the specific uses. But we do know that that the board that there was some critical
infrastructure, major capital improvement projects, that was that was necessary in the area.
So the board proceeded to go down this path. The use is identified. The need is still
public in order to get those those critical needs, infrastructure projects zoned
correctly. Yeah, yeah. Get fire insurance down, get public safety, you know, critical
needs. Exactly. All right. Thank you. Board. Are there any questions for the county? You
know, I just I felt like I couldn't wait. Now the county it's our turn to get get these
guys on this one. They've they've painted themselves a corner. They have to come for a
rezoning for. And I knew exactly what it was for and I saw duck on it. It's a good
cause I don't we don't get to give him a hard time, I said finally. The shoe is on the
other foot, but it is for a good cause. It just seems way too easy for you guys. Yeah, we
have three more after this and we got some more coming, by the way, so. All right, well, thank
you all very much. All right. Thank you. We do have two speakers for this case. So as I
call your name, if you'll come forward state your name and address for the record and then
we'll get your time started. So I've got Sonny Walbeck. Hello, I am Sonny Burke Walbeck. I
live at one, two, three, two, three Alanthus Drive. I have been around the zoning board.
I've spoken multiple times with Mr. Caleb. My concerns for this project. The governor's office
reached out to me yesterday afternoon. Nick of time. And they have a program called
Florida Forever program where we can petition the state to purchase this land and keep it
in conservation. I am requesting a town hall meeting so that we can the citizens of
the area go over the wetland, study the gopher tortoise relocation and the water
abatement. I am part of the Flood Defenders organization. My community suffered
tremendously during hurricane Sally. We had seven feet of water in my backyard. I had
four feet in my front yard. My land was built up. Now it is not. I have not done a wetland
delineation study in my own backyard to prevent more flooding for my own house, and
I am quite concerned about water encroaching into what is our lake and canal system that
runs the entire circle of my community. We are a giant circle surrounded by water
since hurricane Sally. Every time it rains, we flood. I have lost seven feet of land between
my backyard and the lake since hurricane Sally. We used to have a long space. When it
rains, it comes right up to my chain link fence, which is much further than the property line.
I am very concerned about flooding. I'm very concerned about the ecosystem, and I'm a
little irritated that all of this happened so quickly, and we don't even know if there
were gopher tortoises that needed to be relocated. But the land is now cleared out to show
where it's going to be. I understand the fire station is very important. It would lower
my insurance. I'm all for that. I am also all for the fact that I don't want to flood. So can
we make sure that water abatement is good if we have to depend on the Navy? Mr. Steven
is not very good at clearing out his beavers to keep me from flooding. So what are we going
to do for flooding? You're going to put this in. What's the direct impact on my house
and my neighbor's house? I am a partially paralyzed person. I will walk my entire community
and get everyone to sign against it. I am that passionate because we flooded
and I don't want to flood anymore. So how do we feel about a town hall meeting to
discuss all these things? If I may? The board is clearly. And I'm not. I'm not just trying to
just snowboard. I'm very, very clear what I'm saying. The board is very, very clear with
your concerns. I understand your concerns. These this parcel of land has been really,
really discussed thoroughly. Now, it's not done because there will be another process
if it is approved by recommendations made. There's another process that is called
the site plan review process. Yes. That will that will definitely, definitely be have
questions have addressed the stormwater impacts to the whole area to your property as well.
So so those things would definitely be addressed because this the county project and I
and I can speak for the county, the county do not want to have infrastructure that will cause
additional harms on neighboring properties. That's not the county position as all,
especially when they are owning property and when they are building new infrastructure. So
this site plan review process, the engineering department, along with my other team in
this process will clearly they're going to address all of those things to make sure
adverse impacts is minimized sufficiently. I can always stay involved with the site plan
review process and who horse if is that a public meeting? It's all of what it is public
information, public public structures. There will be public reviews and you can
always contact the public safety department, all of those things. So everything that
we're doing is clearly public. It's in the public records. Yes. And and you know, we've had
conversations. If you could always reach out to myself, me and Mr. Jones are part of the
DRC, the development review. That would be the next step for site development. We've we've
made our concerns, per the land development code known to the applicant, which is ourselves,
but engaged with a local engineer. They will have to do a site specific survey, wetland
delineation if there's any threatened endangered species that are found. We'll approach
that for any type of federal state permits that would be needed. There's process. So
this is a first step in the process of getting the zoning right for the potential use. It
doesn't allow for any type of development. This doesn't confer development rights yet.
So just be aware you can keep in contact with me. I'll be I'll be happy to help you out.
Okay, then. I'm satisfied with that. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Joseph Tarver.
You did pretty good on that. Thank you. Yeah. I don't have any complaints. Okay. My
property line is the adjacent to the northeast truck. Just for the record, we got to get
you to say, state your name and address. My name is Joseph Tavernetti at 1110 Bower Road.
And my request is to have a right of way access. Should a fence be erected on our common
property line. I share property, the northeast property line of the Red triangle. That's my
house in the middle of the. Just just north of the red triangle. So if a if a fence
was erected, it would cut me off from part of my property that I maintain on the other
side of the canal. It's kind of hard to see the canal in that photo, but I have property on
that. And the I'm just requesting a right of way. All right. I guess it would be the
southeast corner. I see where you're talking about where the red line cuts across the canal
and. Yeah, right. Yeah. Right there. Horse. How would something like that work? I
know that's not something that we grant or do. Right. And and what would do we would refer
him to to to to our public works director and his department. Those are, those
are issues. That's beyond that's beyond me and this board. But definitely we'll get with
and they will relay. We can relay your concerns and your requests to them. Will it
happen? I don't know, but but I know they will definitely listen to you as you explain to
them. So that gentleman right there, make sure you give him his name and your card and so
they can make and stay in contact with them. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. All
right. Thank you. That was our two speakers for this case board. Are there any questions
for the applicant? No. I'm just glad they're keeping the county on their toes. That's good.
That's right yeah I agree. Anyone else? All right. If not, I will entertain a motion for
this case. Motion to approve. Second. Got a second? Any discussion on the motion? All
those in favor, please signify. Raise your right hand. All those opposed? All right. That
is the end of our regular board meeting. So I will adjourn that. And we will start our rezoning
meeting for March 3rd, 2026. Hereby called to order with eight members present. We do
have a quorum. Do we have proof of publication? Yes, sir. Did publication meet all legal
requirements? Yes. The. I'll entertain a motion to waive the reading of the legal
advertisement. Do I have a motion? Motion to wait a second. Second? All those in favor,
please signify. Raise your right hand. All those opposed? Rezoning. Meeting minutes from
the previous meeting, dated February 3rd, has been provided to the board members. Are there
any additions, deletions or corrections? If not, I'll entertain a motion to accept.
Motion to accept. Second, all those in favor, please signify by raising your right hand.
Motion carries the rezoning hearing package for March 3rd, 2026 with findings of fact has
been provided to the board members. I'll entertain a motion to accept the rezoning
hearing package with findings of fact and legal advertisement into evidence. Do I have a
motion? Motion to accept. Second, all those in favor, please signify by raising your
right hand. All right. Will the court reporter please swear? In members of staff, please raise
your right hand. Do solemnly swear or affirm. The testimony about to give in this case will
be the truth, the truth and nothing but the truth is I do it for. Thank you. All right.
And the board has previously qualified staff to offer expert testimony in the area of land
use and planning. Does anyone have any questions regarding their qualifications and
ability to offer expert testimony? All right. Seeing none at this hearing, the
Planning Board is acting under orders today. I'll make a motion that we waive the
reading. All right. We've got a motion to waive the introductory statement reading.
Do we have a second? Second? All right, all those in favor, please signify. Raise your
right hand. All those opposed. Okay. And I'll just give a brief synopsis for the public
that we've got five criteria that we base our decisions off of. And we base our decisions
off just those five criteria. And that if you would like to speak at the Board of County
Commissioners meeting about one of these cases that you will need to speak today. So this is
a little different than the previous meeting. We were just in as we were all sitting here.
This one, you do have to speak here under oath, give testimony as this is a quasi judicial
meeting that we're in now. So if you want to speak to them, you got to also sign up to
speak. Speak to us as well. And at the beginning of each case, as long as there's no
objections from the applicant, I'll allow staff to briefly present the location and zoning
maps. And next we'll hear from the applicant and any witnesses they may wish to call. Then
we'll hear from staff, any witnesses they may wish to call. And then we'll hear from
members of the public that have signed up to speak. There are four cases to be heard today,
and we'll start with the rezoning application for consideration. Case Z 2020 605
request rezoning of Bower Road, parcel number 27 to S 3122 02000000 from Conservation
District dwelling unit density limited to vested development to public district dwelling
unit density limited to vested residential development as requested by Escambia County,
the owner members of the board. Have there been any ex parte communications about this case
with you, the applicant of the applicants, agents, attorneys or witnesses with fellow
planning Board members or anyone from the general public prior to this hearing? Have you
visited the subject property and also please disclose if you are a relative or business
associate of the applicant or the applicant's agent. I'm familiar with the property as
it was part of a land exchange with the Navy. I have visited the site and know to the rest.
No to all, no to all, no to all. I have visited the site and no to the rest. No to all, no to
all. All right. Staff, since I assume that you are good with presenting the maps and
photographs first, yes, we'll continue again. Caleb McCarty, on behalf of the county, here's
our location map showing the subject property along Bower. The 500 foot radius zoning map.
The conservation zoning district assigned to the property, the future land use
map continued upon the previous meeting would now be future land use of public continued on
BCC acceptance. This is our wetland map again showing the subject property and the flood
zone map of the property. An aerial of the subject property as well. Our rezoning sign
placed along Bower Road there, looking north along Bower, looking northeast onto site
from Bower. Looking on to site from Bower and looking south along Bower, and then directly
across from the subject property across Bower. That concludes our maps and photos
for this case. All right. Thank you. And then who from staff will be presenting for the
rezoning hearing. And then as we do for all cases, just state your full name and address for
the record. And I don't know if you were sworn in earlier, but we could have you sworn in.
Okay. We'll have you sworn in as well. Raise your right hand. Do solemnly swear our testimony
about to give in this case will be the truth. The whole truth. Nothing I do right. David
Cordingly working with the county. I'm 23, 75, Pinto Circle and Cantonment, Florida.
All right. Five. Three. Three. Spell your last name accordingly. C o r d I n g l y.
Perfect. All right. And I understand the county has the burden of providing substantial,
competent evidence that the proposed rezoning is consistent with the comprehensive Plan.
Furthers the goals, objectives and policies of the Comprehensive Plan and is not
in conflict with any portion of the county's land development Code. Yes. All right. Go ahead.
Well, it all down. Yeah. I'm with with the county. So the point of this future land use
is to is to turn it to public so it can be a future fire station. That's it seems we
agree with all the staff findings and that's it. Okay. All right. Any questions for
the representative for the county? Seeing none. Thanks. All right. And I assume it's
the same the same thing from you guys as we typically do this a little little odd since
it is the county. So we'll move on to public comment at this time. And we'll have you come
forward. State your name and address. This time you'll be sworn in and we'll start your
time. And remember that if you want to speak at the Board of County Commissioners meeting,
you do need to speak here today. So, Miss Wahlbeck, you are up first. Yes. Oh, God. Don't ever
break your spine. You solemnly swear or affirm the testimony about to give me the truth. All
truth. Nothing but truth. Yes. My name is Sonny Burke. Walbeck. Okay, we already answered all
of my questions in the last one, but I just want to remember to provide us with a wetland
delineation study, relocate gopher tortoises. And I am very interested in the water
abatement process for this project. Thank you, thank you. Any questions for now? All
right. Our next speaker is Mr. Tavernetti. I think he maybe has exited the building. So
okay. All right. Any other speakers? Very good. All right. Board. That was the only
speaker we had for this case. If there's any further questions we can take those at
this time for the county. Otherwise I'll entertain a motion for this rezoning.
Motion to approve. Second. And a motion. And a second. Any discussion? All those in favor,
please signify by raising your right hand. Okay. Motion carries. Next, we have the
rezoning application for case Z 2020 602 request rezoning of 1900 Border Street from HDMI,
high density mixed use district to CLE heavy commercial and light industrial district
requested by Meredith Bush, agent for Crass Pro Services, LLC, the owner members of the
board. Have there been any ex parte communications on this case? No to all. No to all. Not
all, not all. No to all. No to all. No to all. No. All. Staff was notice of the hearing. Sent
to all interested parties. Yes, sir. And was were signs posted on the subject property. Yes,
sir. Perfect. Meredith. Are we good with maps and photographs being shown? Okay, I'll go
ahead and do that. All right. Board. Andrew Homer, Escambia County development Services
department here we have our location map. This is the 500 foot radius zoning map showing
the zoning on site is high density mixed use. You can see to the north and to the east is
all heavy commercial light industrial. Future land use map. The whole area is mixed use
urban. This is from Ecua. This is our wellhead protection zone map. This is within a 20 year
travel time contour. And this is our community redevelopment area map. The site in question
is part of the Englewood Community Redevelopment Area. This is an aerial of the site.
This is the public hearing sign posted on site. This is looking northeast onto the subject
property. Looking east onto the subject property. Looking southeast onto the property.
And this is looking across Border Street to the west from the front of the property. And.
We can go into the findings if you'd like. Yep. So under the approval conditions, the first
one being consistency with the comprehensive plan, the proposed amendment to CLE is
consistent with the intent and purpose of future land use category. Mixed use urban.
Mixed use urban is intended for an intense mix of residential and nonresidential uses, while
promoting compatible infill development and the separation of urban and suburban land uses
within the category. The proposed request would not change the character of the use
on the property parcel, rather, it would bring the preexisting use into compliance with the
code. The second one is consistency with the land Development Code. And the
findings on that. The proposed request for heavy commercial light industrial is consistent
with the intent and purpose of the Land Development Code. Zoning allows for a mix of
industrial uses with a broad range of commercial activities. The primary intent of the
district is to allow light manufacturing, large scale wholesale and retail uses.
Major services and other more intense uses than allowed in the commercial district. All
commercial and industrial operations are limited to the confines of buildings to
alleviate undesirable effects on other property. To retain adequate area for commercial
and industrial activities. Other uses within the district are limited. A memo from
Transportation and Traffic Operations staff regarding this request provides the following
commentary. Tito has no concerns regarding this proposed rezoning. However, the
existing right of way width is substandard, and please note that Tito's review is solely
based on the application submittal packet, so the comments above hold no bearing
on any Tito comments made during the development review process. As to compatibility
with surrounding uses. The uses permitted within Hcli zoning can be compatible with the
surrounding area. Due to the nature of the existing land use along Border Street in the
adjacent area, the pattern is mixed high density residential and heavy commercial uses to
the west of border, and primarily intense commercial and light industrial uses to
the north east, across the railroad and south along the street. The proposed change
would bring the existing uses into conformity with the LDC. Regarding spot zoning. Hcli
zoning is directly adjacent to the north, and the change would not constitute spot zoning
appropriate with changed or changing conditions. The commercial building on site was
built in the 1970s and predates zoning, as do many of the surrounding buildings, and uses.
The original zoning assigned to the area accounted for the high density residential uses, but
did not account for the nature of the existing commercial uses, bringing the zoning into
compliance with the actual uses would be appropriate, and that concludes staff's findings. All
right. Thank you. Any questions for staff from the board? All right. If not, Meredith, if
you'll please come forward. Bush 314, South Balan, suite 108. We agree with staff's
findings. I'm happy to run through ours, but they are pretty much in line with
staff's position, which supports this application. Happy to take any questions
related to this. The subsequent applications are along the same street, so some of the
questions may be similar. All right. Thank you. Any questions for the applicant. All right.
If not then I will entertain a motion for this case. Make a motion to approve case 2020 602
second motion a second. Any discussion? All those in favor, please signify by raising your
right hand. All opposed? Motion carries. All right. We have. Our next case is 20 Z 2020 603.
Request of 1516 1512, 1800, 1800 and a half, 1716 and 1800 border Street from DMU to Cly,
as requested by Meredith Bush for T.W. cause, LLC, the owner members. Have there been any ex
parte communication on this case? No to all. I'm sorry. No to all. No at all. No to all.
No to all. No to all. No to all, no to all. All right. And we'll now take a look at the maps and
photographs for this case. Yes, sir. This is rezoning 2020 603. And the maps are going to be
very important with this and the following case. Because of the location right next to each
other, they are different cases. It may look the same, but they are different cases. This is
our location map. Here's our 500 foot radius zoning map showing the zoning as DMU and
the zoning to the north and east as heavy commercial light industrial. On the zoning map,
you can see there there are portions of recently vacated right of way in this part. This
parcel, the zoning map just hasn't caught up to that right of way vacation. It will be
filled in with the appropriate zoning soon. Future land use map showing the future land use
for the entire area is mixed use urban. The wellhead map. Once again, it is in a 20 year
travel time contour. And this one is well is within the Inglewood CRA district. Here's
an aerial of the site. This is the public hearing sign. This is looking northeast onto the
subject property. Looking southeast onto the property. Another public hearing sign.
That's okay. Looking onto the site from Border Street and again looking onto the site
from Border Street. It's a large site. This is looking directly across Border Street
from the subject property. Now again from a different portion of the property looking across
border. And this is then looking north along Border Street. As to the findings for
this case. Consistency with the Comprehensive Plan, the proposed amendment to CLE is
consistent with the intent and purpose of future land use category. Mixed use urban.
Mixed use urban is intended for an intense mix of residential and nonresidential uses, while
promoting compatible infill development and the separation of urban and suburban land uses
within the category. Aerial photography shows a similar mix of uses in the area, continuing
from 1980 to the present day. This request, along with the approved right of way vacation,
would serve to bring the zoning and alignment with the existing conditions. Consistency with
the Land Development Code, the proposed request for heavy commercial light industrial is
consistent with the intent and purpose of the Land Development Code. Zoning allows for a mix
of industrial uses with a broad range of commercial activities. Primary intent of the district
is to allow light manufacturing, large scale wholesale and retail uses, major services and
other more intense uses than allowed in the commercial district. All commercial and
industrial operations are limited to the confines of buildings to alleviate
undesirable effects on other property. To retain adequate area for commercial and
industrial activities. Other uses within the district are limited. A memo from
Transportation and Traffic Operations staff regarding this request provides the following
commentary. Tito has no concerns regarding this proposed rezoning. However, the
existing right of way width is substandard. Please note that Tito's review is solely based
on the application submittal packet, so the comments above hold no bearing on any Tito
comments made during the development review process. Compatibility with surrounding
uses. The uses permitted within CLA h zoning can be compatible with the surrounding area due
to the nature of the existing land uses along Border Street in the adjacent area, the
pattern is mixed with high density residential and heavy commercial uses to the west of
border and primary, primarily intense commercial and light industrial uses to the north
and south. Across the railroad to the east is a salvage operation. A more intense use
than the proposed change would allow, and requiring conditional use approval.
Regarding spot zoning. Zoning is to the east, and the change for climate change to CLE for
this parcel would serve to more closely align the zoning districts to the existing land
uses on the land. The site is located in an area where an already established
nonresidential uses are otherwise consistent with CLE, and the proposed change would
constitute infill development of similar intensity. Additionally, the location
would not contribute to or promote strip development due the existing surrounding uses.
Change conditions. The recently approved right of way vacation for this property is a change
condition that will serve to bring the use into compliance, but the rezoning to CLE is
required to fully meet the code provisions. And that concludes staff's findings. All right.
Any questions for staff from the board? Seeing none. Meredith, if you please come
forward your way, we can expedite all of these since they're all approved by the
staff. And I'm assuming you probably don't have any issues with any of them. There's
nobody speaking on them. I'm happy to to consent to expedited hearings. We adopt
fully. Staff's findings would ask that ours be also included in the record. You know, should
anything later come of this. Again, there's no objection. It will upgrade the area they are
in CRA. CRA is fully supportive. CRA plans themselves identify the street as industrial, so I
don't see any future problem. I'm happy to expedite on this. And, you know, carry over those
comments to the following case. All right as well. Happy to do that. And we'll just but we'll
do it for this case separately in the next case separately just to keep them. So yeah. So
as long as they're kept separate okay I'm fine with that. All right. Very good. So
we've got the applicant and staff in agreement. No speakers on this case. So happy to
entertain a motion. Motion to approve. Approve. Second. All those in favor, please signify
by raising your right hand. Motion carries. All right. Our final case for the day is case
Z 2020 604. Request zoning 15, 12, 1510 and 1509 Border Street from TMU to Cly. Requested by
Meredith Bush for Angela's Auto Parts, Inc. the owner. Have there been any ex parte
communications board members on this case? No to all. No to all. No to all. No to all. No to all.
Chairman, I need to abstain from this. And I'll read the disclosure for officer's
interest. Jonathan Owens hereby disclose on March 3rd, 2026, the measure came or will come
before my agency in order to special gain or loss of my business partner or business
associate, Angelo Alexakos. The measure before the agency and nature by my conflicting
interest in measure as follows Angelo Alexakos and I are business partners in a separate
company dated March 3rd, Jonathan Owens. All right. Thank you, Mr. Owens. No to all.
No to all. All right. And, Meredith, if you'll come forward and if you are also in
agreement with staff's findings on this case as well. Mr. chairman, if, sir, while staff
findings are similar, I do want to show you on an aerial map, just for the record, this,
while similar in nature, this does also include a property on the west side of Border Street
just by way of separation that these are different cases, but staff has no objection to the
rezoning on this property. All right. Thank you. Meredith Bush 314, South Bay Lane, suite 108.
We would agree with staff's findings. Fully adopt those. For the record, ask that our
submittal also be included in the record and agree to an expedited hearing. Again, we've
had no objection from the public. These are located within a CRA. And the CRA plan
itself identifies this area as needing to be future industrial. I've spoken with Clara Long,
has no objection, and just like any case, it'll go through site plan review process. Happy to
take questions. All right. Board, any questions? If not, I'll entertain a motion for
this case as we have no speakers and applicant and staff are in agreement. Move to
approve 2020 604. All right. Do I have a second? Second. Any discussion? All those in favor,
please signify by raising your right hand. All those opposed? Any abstentions? All right.
Motion carries with six yeses and one abstention. That is our last case for the day. Staff,
is there anything you'd like to say before we part ways for a month? I would just like to say
that next month, meeting Tuesday, April 7th. We have nine cases on there. When you
do see the agenda, however, six of them are for three of the county. Kind of like we had
today, a small scale and a rezoning. So just whenever you see the agenda, know six of
them are together. All right. That call can't be coughing right now.