All right. Six o'clock. Call the meeting order. First is approval of the agenda. I moved to approve the agenda. For the second. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right agenda is approved. First is attorney which will be here relatively soon. Should we walk in the door just a second? Yes. first is attorney which will be here relatively soon. We should be walking the door in just a second. Yes. Welcome. Hi. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Chair, maybe we can move to just Swearing in first. Any objections? No. All right. Okay. All right. Remember? You're up. All right. Right on time. Has any member of the commission received any communication regarding the quasi judicial item on the agenda? Yeah. Yeah. All right. Anyone who plans to speak at tonight's meeting, please stay in and raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you provide today is the truth to the best of your knowledge or belief? Thank you All right first item is legislative item Z 25-0000007 comprehensive plan amendments water supply planning Good evening, Mr. Chair Michael Castine senior planning with the Department of Growth Management, and we're bringing to you tonight a plan amendment to update, to recommend to the board, to update and adopt the water supply plan and accompanying comprehensive plan policies. and for the statute to established water requirements for local governments regarding water supply planning first happened in 2005 and in about 2017 the water management district adopted a water supply plan and then in 2023 did an update. So, county staff worked with City of Gainesville and GRU staff to develop a joint water supply facilities work plan and adopted it in 2018, and now we're doing an update for 2025. These are county initiated amendments to the comprehensive plan and essentially what they do is extend the timeframe of the water supply plan. Oops. It incorporates by reference the joint water supply facilities work plan that the board will adopt and that was provided to you in your backup materials. So our timeline is tonight, those the local planning agency hearing, we'll take this to the Board of County Commission on June 24th for Transmiddell hearing, and then after a year from the Department of Commerce, we'll bring it back to the Board to consider adopting the proposed amendments. So as I mentioned in 2005, it's one of the legislature first adopted requirements for water supply planning, and those are in some of the growth management statutes or relate to them. So the water management district, Swansea and St. John's together adopted a regional water supply plan in 2017 and updated it in 2023 and in the statute that requires the local governments to adopt their updates within 18 It's a joint plan because although Alaskan County is not a water supplier, GRU is the water supplier in the unincorporated area of Alaskan County within the urban cluster. And so that is why we partnered with GRU. There are a few small water suppliers within unincorporated Alaskan County and those are addressed in the plan, but fundamentally it's the joint plan with the City of Yanesville and GRU. It was originally created in 2017 to adopt the water supply and water conservation projects to try to help reduce water demand and meet projected future water supply needs. Minor updates were done in the 2025 facilities plan, our data analysis, the population projections and the water use projections out over time over the timeframe of the water supply plan. So we updated some data in there. This is all described in detail in the staff report. It has conservation projects that are implemented by both Alacirc County and GRU and GRU will construct capital projects as well. These don't have to be funded but if they're in the plan they can be eligible for water management district funding from 2018 to 2028 updating it to 2025 to 2035. That is in the potable water and sanitary sewer element incorporating the water facilities work plan by reference, the conservation and open space element and two policies in the intergovernmental coordination element. Staff's recommendation is that the local planning agency recommend the Board of County Commissioners transmit the proposed comprehensive plan of amendment Z25007 to the state land planning agency and other agencies for review and comment. And I'll be happy to answer your questions. Anyone have questions for staff? I expect that disproportionate amount on a historical basis of expansion of housing in the Outside of the urban area. And I expect that we're going to have, I should say, that there's gonna be more demands on it. Are we adequately coordinated with new very Alachua archer to under systems and the capital improvements that it might take might be necessary In terms of our water supply plan coordinating with those communities of water supply plan I believe the district will water management districts do that coordination however to my knowledge Those communities have not done a water supply plan in the past but are doing doing it now. Yes. Yeah, so I hear. And I'm also had, I noticed that there seemed to be a little bit out of balance better you were talking about about St. John's, but not as frequently about Swansea River. It is a joint plan. I don't want to mischaracterize it. I would say that St. John's has been the primary coordinator. I understand why. Yes, with a lot of full cooperation and assistance with the Swanning River District. Any questions? I would recommend to the B.O.C.C. to transmit the proposed amendment to the comprehensive plan. Z25000000, one more zero of seven. All right, we have motion, do we have second? Oh, second. All right. Any discussion. All in favor. I. Mr. Chair. Public comment. Please. Is there anyone in the public that has any comment on the current plan? All right. Any more discussion up here? All right. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? All right. Thank you. Thank you. That moves us to quasi-digital item 4.1 of which would be a statement and determination of affected parties. Mr. Chair, we have no individuals who have requested party status. So I'll summarize the statement that I normally made, which is just an affected party is generally somebody who is substantially more impacted by the decision of the planning commission than a member of the public at large. An affected party would be granted additional time to make a presentation, to cross-examine witnesses, and they have some additional due process rights in that sense. As I said, no one has requested affected party status for this application. Is there anyone in the audience that believes they are a party? All right. It moves us 4.2, Z25-000008, special exemption, commercial animal boarding facility. Mr. Chair, good evening. Jerry Bruinton, Senior Planner, a lots of County Department of Growth Management. I have been sworn a copy of my resume as on file and for the record this item was properly advertised and proof of publication was provided to the clerk. As you stated this is Z250000008, a special exception request for a commercial animal boarding facility. Some slides. This is a site locator slide. The property is located south of northwest 39th Avenue, just west of I-75. You can see here it's located approximately across I-75 on the west side of I-75 from Santa Fe community college. It is part of a larger site that you can see in this aerial photo. The larger parcel 6233-14-5 encompasses a much larger area. This particular parcel has already received development plan approval for the entire parcel. They are now developing portions of it, including residential, as well as non-residential in the area. This is in the non-residential, actually the light industrial portion of the site. And you can see the wedge shape site that is where the development if approved will be located. This is the land use map, or actually this is the zoning map, excuse me, for the property. The property has a zoning designation of ML, which is a light industrial zoning district. It implements the light industrial land use designation that you can see on this slide. The property has a mix of land uses, warehouse distribution to the north, that polygon-shaped property is actually a DOT retention area that you see just to the west and north of the project site. But there's warehouse distribution, some medium-density residential that is the subject of development right now for a housing development. Conservation area to the south that is again in conservation will not be developed and then the light industrial area that you see adjacent to I-75 which is where the subject parcel is located. As I pointed out earlier, Mr. Chair, the site is a part of a larger development that has already seeped development plan approval. What the applicant is requesting is a special exception for a commercial animal boarding facility. These are allowed in the ML zoning district again by special exception with approval ultimately by the Board of County Commissioners. The special exception allows daytime boarding as well as overnight boarding with a limit of 30 days on the overnight provision. There are specific criteria and the code for this special exception that's found in section 404.44 of the code. And that lays out the specific criteria that are required for a facility of this type. Master site plan is the overall site, the one I pointed out earlier. The Hammock Reserve subdivision, you can see on the west side of Northwest 97th Boulevard, which is being extended right now. You'll see in some of the photos, it's still actually not completed yet. It has had its first go round of paving, but it has still not completed. The proposed animal boarding facility is located there. You can see this where it's labeled a special exception project area with stormwater immediately to the north and to the south and to the southeast. As you can see Mr. Chair and commissioners this particular facility where it's located is surrounded by storm water facilities. And so that is actually going to play into one of the conditions we have later on, which I will talk about. But again, this is development that is ongoing. The hammock reserve is underway. The horizontal work on that is going on as we speak. And the road has been extended to approximately where you see it on the slide. The site itself is going to be developed. This is our preliminary site plan. There is a phase one building area which is where the facilities will actually go. A phase two dog park which is then again an outdoor dog park with screening on two sides to the north and to the southeast and then a vehicular use or parking area to the southwest. So this is the approximate use that is going to be proposed for the site plan. We now we analyze, excuse me Mr. Chair, the application for consistency with both the comp plan and the code. With regard to the comp plan, we look primarily toward policy 7.1.2 of our future land use element, which states that proposed changes in the zoning map shall consider consistency with the plan, as well as impacts to facilities and relationships to surrounding development. We have found in our analysis that the proposed special exception will not negatively impact public facilities. It is consistent with development patterns in the immediate area and it is consistent with the policies, goals and objectives of the plan. We also analyze the Unified Land Development Code and there is a specific section that provides criteria for the ULDC that is 402.113. That lists 30 criteria that you will see in more detail in your staff report for approval of such a special exception request. These include just factors as consistency with the plan, compatibility with surrounding uses as well as the health, safety and welfare of the public health care and the health care and the health care and the health and the health care and the health care and the health and the health care and the health and the health care and the health and the health care and the health and the health care and the health and the health care and the health and the health care and the health and the health care and the health and the health care and the health and the, Mr. Chair, Section 404.44 provides specific criteria for commercial animal boarding facilities. In other words, there is a section of the code that provides criteria that the applicant must follow in developing a facility for commercial animal boarding facilities. We have analyzed these areas of the code, we find that they are consistent, but I do want to point out a proposed condition that we have added on to this. There are four proposed conditions. Allowing the facility on the site, limiting parking to 65 paved spaces, screening will be required only in certain areas. They identified as phase two on the proposed development plan, but also Mr. Chair, a medium density buffer shall only be required along the northeast perimeter of the site as shown on the proposed site plan. Now this is specific to this project. Normally a 404.44 would require that buffering occur all around the project, all sides. However, if you saw that aerial view and the site plan, you'll note that there is buffering already provided on part of it already to the northwest. But these are also stormwater retention facilities. And then there is also a roadway to the south end of the project. So buffering from these particular areas was considered, I don't want to say redundant, but with not necessary, we are only proposing development, the development due buffers to the northeast side of the project. So if you see this area right here with the little dash line, this is where we are actually going to consider buffering from future development that may occur over here. Otherwise, again, there's a stormwater area to the south. There's a conservation area to the southwest. There's stormwater area to the northwest. And then there's also the retention area left over as part of the DOT parcel. So it's basically surrounded by retention areas with the Northwest 97th Boulevard on this southern side of the property. It was not felt that buffering was necessary from those areas. So again that condition would restrict buffering only to this particular side of the site. Just some project photos. This is again the property. You can see the road that it was basically just completed before I did my site visit. Right now there is some vegetation on the property, but it is basically all being developed again under this master site plan that was previously approved. You can see that there are across from the project site, this is looking south. There are in the distance is the conservation area. And then in the area it's hard to see with a change of geography, but you can see the barely the outline of the stormwater retention basins to the south. And looking to the southwest again, conservation area and much easier to see the storm water retention basins on that area. So it is surrounded by these types of storm water basins providing in essence a setback or non-developed area that's surrounding for the most part this parcel. With that, Mr. Chair, staff recommends that the Planning Commission find the proposed special exception request consistent with our plan, as well as our unified lane development code, and that you recommend to the Board of County Commissioners that they adopt the resolution approving the request. That concludes staff presentation unless there's any questions. Any questions for staff? I have a couple. Yes, so the dog park is that a day used dog park or is associated with the boarding of the animals? The applicant is here. Mr. Chair, I would assume it is a day use dog park. There are limiting hours on when the facilities can be used. In other words, there is in 404.44 hours limiting it. I am assuming for the most part that it would be for the day use of the dog park while people bring their doggy daycare. But the applicant certainly is here and I think couldn't address that in more detail if I've miss spoken. And then the purpose of the screening is between two uses that are not compatible or just different. So that would be between the dog park and then the light industrial to the northeast. Where, yeah, wherever the dog park exists around that phase two to the Northeast and along the road the screening is still going to be there, but not over the rest of the property. So, why would you need screening for light industrial? There is a buffer requirement that medium density buffer requires screening. And so we were keeping the screening there both for the facility because of the dogs that were there. screening. And so we were keeping the screening there, both for the facility because of the dogs that were there. The screening element was part that we actually kept, feeling to just leave some sort because that was the outdoor. Part of the, if you look at the requirements, there's a lot of requirement for segregating the animals and setbacks for the animal facilities. This was felt to just be one more method. We did not know what was going to be next door. And so we wanted to be able to at least have screening on the dog park portion of the property. Okay. And those are my questions. Thank you. All right. Any more questions? I'm a little concerned. By the way, I think that there's a real need. There's a real need for this doggy parks and places for our friends to go. I'm a little concerned about whether it needs a little bit more buffer, but you've looked at it carefully. I spent some time today finding the site, and I thought it was very creative where the site was put, and that it was effective. And it was after you found it, I made a mistake at coming from the wrong direction and we have that as my real concern is is it enough because I haven't found that water retention area is very good for sound offering. Mr. Chair I will only follow up with I-75 is right there too I don't know how much of an impact that's going to be with I-75. It's very proximate to the highway. And so again, that kind of played into it as well was the proximity to I-75. If you're suggesting you already have a... There's probably a white noise factor of I-75 that you're going to be dealing with there that we kind of considered as well. I think I yield on this one. Any other questions? And the applicant is here. I they have a presentation, but I'll let Mr. Reyes speak for the applicant. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jerry. Good afternoon, Sergio Reyes, with the idea of consultant and professional engineer in the State of Florida. So we are presenting today application for the specialization for that just going online. With me tonight is the future of the property, the man's, Steven Mann and Anaman, and they will be on and operating the facility. So you have any questions about future operation and how this works. So the task parcel is a portion of the big parcel, the big parcel is 0, 6, 2, 3, 3, 0, 1, 4, 0, 0, 5. That's big parcel around I-75, basically 90 AS-3. Okay. That big parcel has been divided in different zoning categories. The area that we are proposing this special exception is the zoning light industry. So you see the big parcel in there, like Jerry's playing, the big parcel, all of these around. This big weird shape parcel in here. This is a stone water basin, the DOT drains in there there so that's never going to be developed except for stone water facilities. The area in here is the area that's been developed right now for a single-familia residencial atas. There's 140 residencial units there in happen right now and this time. The remaining area in here this this area that's going to be developed as a line industrial. This area in here around 29 acres or area is was set aside for conservation. So that will remain undeveloped natural in the way exists today. And also there is a 100 feet natural buffer to any close residential units in the back. So there is a lot of distance and the guy on the other is lighting here. I'll show you. So this is what Jodi identified as a the pre-development development plant. It was approved already for the whole area in here and the different zoning classification in the area. Again, conservation, single-family residential residency are lying industrial and office in there. A little more detail, or what is going to happen. And there are ways happening already in this area. Again, the residency, the construction, we are hoping to finish construction in the next month, two months, we hope. And then the conservation area here. The closest distance to any residential today is around 750 feet. I-75 is around 500 feet in here, something like that. But yeah, one of the commissioners went and visited this area and you park in there. You still can hear the noise from a nice 75. Definitely, you can hear the noise from a nice 75. Part of the project that we are doing, development this all property also, we are building a berm in here to kind of at the end of a buffer the noise from a nice 75. A little bit. This is the uses, the different uses for this site. As they set up right now, basically the gray areas are the vehicle use areas. The green space in there is the different buffer setbacks that require by code. As Jerry explained, we have the screen. The screen is going to be in this part in here. The phase two screen is going to happen. There is going to have the fence and in this area in here, of the park. That's where the dog park is going to happen. And as we know right now, it's just going to be used during the day to work and do the open areas of the project. So the special use conditions that we have in here, these are the conditions, the staff and we ask the applicant, we work out with it and we agree to these conditions. The special exception is to permit a commercial animal, boarding facility in a 4.9 acres or the portion of the parcel. Parking will be shall be proven sight to as you can see, be served the anticipated use and the maximum number of parking spaces in here is going to be 65 parking spaces. We believe that is plenty for this facility. We talk about the screening. The screening is going to be only to the park phase two of the project. Again, it will be in that area located in there. And talking about the buffer, what does that buffer mean? It's a medium density buffer, which will require the noise perimeter of the property. As I shown in the development plan. And this is in general the development plan. I can go to this condition, this is more for planners than engineers, so I'm going to pass that part. So, it's basically how we meet the code, the land development code and land development code and how we meet that. The hour of operation between 7 a.m. in the morning until 9 p.m. in the afternoon. You guys want to know that finally, staff recommended approval, consistent with the comprehensive plan. All use specific standards meet the unified landIFI land development code, comparable to the development of the foreign and the area, all public facilities are available when we're constructing 97 boulevards right now. We are bringing wires to our electric internet, all of the facilities. And we agree with the conditions of the SUP. Be glad to answer any questions. So like like I said, the future owners are here. You want to hear about the operation of the facilities. All right, thank you. I'm sure there's not any questions for the applicant. Yeah. Questions under? All right. We have a motion. I'm really approval. The motion for approval? Twenty second. Is there anyone in the audience that would like to comment? Do we have any discussion? All right. All in favor? Did that gentleman say anything? No, we have public comment. I asked. No one's in the public want to comment right? Okay. I believe staff mentioned that they were going to have some discussions about the storm water. We can't hear you. Did you meant that you and the engineer, did he already cover that? Well, he was talking correct me from wrong staff that the buffering requirement wasn't necessary because of this dorm waters We've got that correct Any other discussion All in favor I any opposed all right motion passes. Thank you. Thank you All right Gen. Number five approval of the minutes. Move to approve the met simply from the March meeting. April meeting. April meeting. I felt like it was from March. Yeah. Do I have a second? Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? right. Attendance reports was attached. Any questions on the attendance reports? Mr. Chair, I did just want to mention we do have applications that will have meetings throughout the summer since we're starting to get that way. And I know some of us have kids and maybe inter out but just be aware that we do anticipate having regular meetings throughout the summer. Regular meetings, and if I'm not mistaken, I think my term is up in July. So you guys have two months to figure that out. You're not replaying? Not as of today. A little more meetings like this maybe. Any other comment from the commissioners? Alright, 631.