Application No. 23-CW-16 FREEDMAN Consulting & Development LLC To: Meeting Attendees Date: July 31, 2023 From: Joel Freedman, Freedman Consulting & Development, Applicant's. Agent Subject: Summary of Minutes-Community Workshop June 26, 2023, 5:30 pm A community workshop was held to discuss an application for a Rezone and proffered Site Plan using the Downtown Edge (DTE) zoning district for the property located at 2250 Fruitville Road (PID# 2029030012). The community workshop is required to be held prior to submittal ofthe application for the rezoning. The subject property, known as the Sarasota Lanes Bowling Alley, is 83,774 s.f. (1.923 +/- acres) in area and is designated as Urban Edge on the City's Future Land Use Plan Map. The subject property is currently zoned CG (Commercial General) which is inconsistent with the Urban Edge land use designation. The proposed rezone will be from the existing CG zone district to the Downtown Edge (DTE) zone district, the implementing zone district for the Urban Edge future land use classification. A site plan will be proffered with the rezone. The DTE zoning district allows for 25 units per acre, however, the applicant is proposing to use the new bonus density (100 units per acre) regulations being processed for the DTE zoning district. These new proposed regulations require that 15% of the bonus units to be designated as attainable units for a minimum of 30 years. The development proposed is to construct a five-story apartment building with 192 units. Based on the proposed zoning regulations there will be 144 market rate units and 48 attainable units. There will be studios, one, two and three-bedroom units within the building. An internal parking garage is proposed to have approximately 250 +/- parking spaces which exceeds the required parking of 181 spaces. Vehicular access to the property will be from Main Street. A ground floor leasing office is proposed along with ai third-floor pool and amenity area. Joel Freedman, agent and Chris Gallagher, project architect provided an overview ofthe proposal. Below are the non-verbatim summary minutes of the discussion: Questions/Comments Responses The zoning changes currently going through the process have a Based on input I have received from the developers that I work, with 15% 15% attainable unit requirement for the bonus units. Can this is the correct amount that still allows for the project to be financially viable. be increased to provide more affordable housing? The units will be divided into the three Average Median Income (AMI) ranges with at least 1/3 ofthe units for families with incomes of 80% or less ofthe. AMI, noi more than 1/3 ofthe units for families with incomes of 100% to 120% AMI and then the final 1/3 for families with incomes of 80% to 100% AMI. Details of the new zoning regulations are still pending. What Increasing the required percentage above 15% of the bonus units to be change could happen that would make your client to not attainable units would be one change that could cause them to not proceed. proceed. The public hearings forthe zoning changes before the City Commission are currently being set for August and September. Owner oft the building at 2272 Main Street is concerned that the Any new building on the bowling alley site will obstruct the visibility from new building will block visibility ofhis building from Fruitville Fruitville Road. Road. There are approximately 15 parking spaces along the north side The current design does impact some of the spaces. The code requires that of Main Street. Concern over losing that parking. we. have access to our site from Main Street. We will look at the situation and try and minimize impact to the spaces. We will not be impacting or changing the parking on the south side of Main Street in this area. Are changes proposed to be made to the surface parking lot No changes are proposed to the Kane Plaza parking lot. owned by Kane Plaza? Questions/Comments Responses What is the circle (cul-de-sac) being proposed at the end of Iti is a proposed turnaround for people coming to the building to drop people Main Street? off. No gates are proposed. Will the spaces on the north side of Main Street by the Those spaces are on private property and will be for the apartments. turnaround be open to the public? People coming to use the Legacy Trail drive to this area and Perhaps the City should be asked to look atj putting time limits on the parking park causing more pressure on the existing parking. in this area. Also an option might be to ask the Kane Plaza owner to set up aj paid parking situation for their lot like is happening on many oft thej private parking lots is the downtown. Dance studio is open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. with anywhere from As the project moves forward there may be excess parking in the new 10 to 30 people in attendance. Staff parks behind the building building that an arrangement could be made for others to use. but that takes up 75% of those spaces. Word is that a bicycle rental operation is coming to the area for We will continue to look at the parking situation along Main Street. people wanting to use the Legacy Trail. This will put more pressure on the limited parking. What is the timeline for thej project? We will finalize our design and application in the next few weeks and submit the application to the City. The staff will complete their technical review and once they complete that, we will be scheduled for a Planning Board public hearing. They will make a recommendation on the rezone and site plan to the City Commission who will also hold aj public hearing and make the final decision. We hope to have the City Commission hearing by the end of the year. After that, there will be approximately six months for construction document preparation, three months for permitting and then 18 to 24 months for construction. Is there any retail use being proposed for the ground floor oft the No, the applicant is an apartment developer and is not proposing any building? commercial use. Where can we follow the application online? Go to sarasotafl.gov. This meeting recording will be under "meetings and agenda." Once an application is submitted, you will receive notice in the mail like you did for the Community Workshop. This meeting adjourned at 6:05 pm. Contacts regarding this summary: Joel Freedman, Freedman Consulting & Development, Applicant's Agent: (941) 780-2623 2