Regular Meeting @ 5 p.m. - Apr 28, 2026

Good evening, everyone. I'd like to go ahead and reconvene the April 28th Board of County Commission meeting. So the only two items on the agenda are public hearing. At 5.30, we have time certain for public comment for those of you that don't normally come to these meetings. We may be done by 5.30, but if not, we'll take a short break. He's laughing. Gary, was that you laughing? Yeah. So if we break, if we get done before 5.30, then that would be great. Otherwise, we'll take a short break for public comment. And Madam Clerk, first item. First item, we have public hearing, large-scale comprehensive plan amendment for rural agricultural to UF golf institutional and to create policies related to Hickory Sink special area study. Okay. And the recommended action, the staff recommends that the Board transmit the proposed map and text amendments to the Florida Commerce for their review and comment. And Chris, good evening. You are recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Obviously, I'm not Jerry Brewington, but Chris Dawson, Principal Planner for Development Services at Growth Management. And this first item is a large-scale comprehensive plan amendment, and it's implementing the Hickory Sink special area study phase one for the UF golf institutional property. Just some quick background. This is subject to a special area study that was accepted by the Board in November 2023. That resolution included a number of conditions, but specifically it talked about phasing and acknowledged that there could be a phase one implementation of that special area study that was for UF golf. It identified conservation areas and areas for potential future development in addition to the golf course, and it provided specific direction on protection of environmental resources within the limits of the special area study. So tonight, what you're considering is a large-scale comprehensive plan amendment. This includes both an adoption of some maps and changing the land use on a piece of property, and then also includes policies that will implement the Hickory Sink special area study generally, but also as it specifically applies to this property. There's really three distinct ownership parts of the special area study now. So one of them is the property that you're considering tonight, which is about 580 acres. It's east of Parker Road and just south of Oakmont. That's owned by the UF Foundation. And again, it's proposed for a golf course and related facilities. The lands west of Parker Road are now owned by UF IFAS, and then there are lands south of the golf course property that were in the special area study that are still owned by the league. Okay. Commissioner Priscian? I have a question about that. My understanding is that IFAS is an institute underneath the University of Florida, and so the land that is in management by IFAS is actually not owned by IFAS, but it's owned by the state of Florida. Is that accurate? I think that's true of all of UF's properties, yes. So it's managed by IFAS, but it's all owned by the state. State of Florida. Thank you. And again, this property is located south of Oakmont and west of Hale Plantation. Again, this is where the site is. You can see Oakmont here southeast of the intersection of 24th and Parker Road, and then Hale Plantation is immediately to the east of that, going all the way over to Tower Road. The zoomed-in aerial of the site, and again, you can see all those lots that are in Hale Plantation to the east. You can't see as many to the north where Oakmont is, but these last phases are now coming in as well. And then Parker Road on the west side. The Flint Rock Agri-Hood is across the road, and then undeveloped properties to the south. The existing future land use designation, which is rural ag for the property, which we propose to change to the UF Gulf Institutional, a new land use designation that's defined within the special area study. So the BOCC approved a series of conditions with the special area study when they accepted it. And those will be incorporated as policies, goals, and objectives in the plan or as conditions of any implementing zoning district. The present request was initiated by the foundation as the sort of first step in eventual development of the golf course. And staff are also proposing properties that apply more broadly within the limits of the special area study. So kind of just where we are in this lengthy process. The scope for the special area study was actually approved by the board on June 9th of 2020. So we're six years almost down the road. The special area study included data and analysis on the site, as well as stakeholder workshops and presentations to the board. And again, the board accepted that special area study resolution in November 2023. And then the current application is really the special area plan. So it's the implementation of that study within our comprehensive plan through MAP amendments and policies vote. This shows the UF Health, I'm sorry, the Hickory Sync Strategic Ecosystem. Sorry, my brain just froze there for a second. In the sort of green color. And the limits of the special area study are actually shown with this yellow line. So while the special area study was a little bit larger than the Hickory Sync Strategic Ecosystem, it really encompasses nearly all of that strategic ecosystem. So part one of what's happening is some MAP amendments, some changes, some new MAPs. So the Hickory Sync SAS was adopted by the board, and that has to be incorporated, that boundary has to be incorporated into our plan. So our first MAP would be MAP F17A, and that would adopt the limits of the special area study, the special area plan, into our comprehensive plan. And so that's sort of what this MAP is. It shows the limits of that boundary, as well as conservation areas, and then the University of Florida Foundation property. A second MAP is to actually change the future land use designation of the property from its current rural agricultural to the UF Gulf institutional. And again, this is a specific land use for this property that's implemented by policies that would be adopted in the comprehensive plan. And that would be MAP F17B. And these are just snippets. They'll look a little bit different when we get to adoption, but for the purposes of today. So this is what that would look like. It just changes the future land use designation of this property. And then there's a last MAP as well that would be adopted. And this identifies the conservation management areas that were shown in the special area study. They're governed by policies within the SAS. They may also have implementation in the PD sort of further down. So in PDs implementing future development. So for example, the UF Gulf course property will have a planned development zoning that applies to it that will sort of taper those policies down specifically to that zoning level. And so that would be MAP 3 or 17C. And again, this shows, you know, the conservation management areas here within the UF Gulf property. So part two of this application, as I'll call it. So part one is the MAP amendments. Part two is our text amendments. Is to adopt policies within our comprehensive plan that implement the special area study. So this is what all of our other special area studies have as well. And so it includes a new objective 8.6 for the Hickory Sink special area study. That's in the future land use element. And then policies that go along with it. So there are some policies that address the special area study as a whole. That's 861 to 864. And I'm going to go through these in just a minute. But there are also policies that address the UF Gulf parcel specifically. So that's 865 and its sub policies. So really the conditions that were in the special area study resolution dealt with the designation of conservation management area. That's in policy 864. So this is kind of just lining up where those conditions fall in the policies. Address extension of potable water and sanitary sewer. That's in 865 C water conservation and landscaping 865 D and E nutrient management in 865 F and I BMPs for Florida Gulf courses in 865 E and a water quality monitoring plan in 865 H. Those are the main policies. Now, the next slides have all the policy language and I'm not going to read them to you. But I'm going to just tell you what's in them so that we are having a good sort of understanding. 864 requires permanent protection of the conservation management areas within the special area study. That has to happen sort of as part of that development process, which is normal in our development scheme here in Alachua County. We require this of almost every development, but it's important that we include that language because it is part of that special area study. That the conservation management areas have to be recorded and that land has to be set aside. Mr. Prizzi. Yeah, in that policy, there's a boundary of acreage. Who's going to oversee that boundary goes a little more west and a little less east or whatever? Is that the point? Yes, that's exactly what it is. It's that as we get to that sort of continue to taper in on that detail, that those boundaries could be adjusted to the extent that it results in better protection of the resources. I mean, I guess that would be helpful to have in there to ensure better protection of the natural resources. Because, I mean, as it's written right now, it basically sounds like that boundary could just get adjusted. Move it. Right. We could move it like, you know what? That cave's in the wrong place and we want to put our T for whole nine there. Like, I just would like it to be a little bit more clear that it's for the purposes of protection of the natural resources. Okay. Thank you. I do think, Mr. Chair, I was just going to say, when these conversations come up, in your motion, we would need some direction on that. And it maybe doesn't have to be specific language. We can probably tailor that. But we would want to be able to include that in the information that we've traded to Florida Commerce. Commissioner Alford. Yeah, so I've got some experience with conservation management plans. Would the one that would be required in this instance be specifically addressing the fact that a golf course would be a neighbor of the conservation area? Or would it only address what is in the conservation area itself? Well, I mean, for instance, you have a golf course next door that would, you know, have certain impacts on its neighboring properties. And I'm curious if the conservation... Mr. Chair, I think I'm going to ask our environmental department to respond to that. Mr. Brown, welcome. Mr. Chair, I appreciate the opportunity to speak a little bit this evening. That's an excellent question. And we've met with the applicant. There are areas beyond the conservation management areas that are designated that will be part of within the framework of the golf course. There are areas in certain fairway areas that will have scrub habitat in between that they will preserve as well. And they're trying to work through that and very diligent in trying to work through a plan that actually incorporates because there are gopher courses in those locations as well. So one of the things that we're trying to do is try to minimize the overall footprint of impact. But the areas that you see here in the CMA, those are designated two isolated ones are where the sinkholes, the two water sinkholes, and the rest of them are what we refer to as sinkhole valley. Basically, they all fall within that same CMA area there. So that's a good question that we've been working with the applicant and trying to resolve in terms of areas. And that comes with the footprint of the golf course layout. So when a golf ball gets hit into the rough and it's a conservation area, would that be a lost ball or are people going to be going, tramping in there to find their ball? Well, hopefully, it depends on how good a golfer they are, I guess. I'm sorry, the golfers that we're playing probably won't be an issue. That's right. I was just curious. I won't be playing on the course of that. But hopefully, there is rough areas along the edge of the CMAs that there will be buffers around them that may be 40, 50 feet so that hopefully, if somebody goes askew, they won't be all the way into the scrub habitat. So hopefully, we'll have a problem with that. Okay. Yeah, my friends used to tell me how bad a golfer I was. So I – all right. Thank you. I appreciate it. Mary, you're going to have to bring extra golf balls when you play. Yeah, we're not going into the CMA areas. Okay. Go ahead, Chris. Me too, not just Mary. I'm a bad golfer too, just for the record, just so everybody knows. No, I don't think that would be a good place for me. The 865, as I mentioned, is really the policy that sort of identifies the specifics of the UF Golf Institutional Future Land Use Designation. So we do identify the parcel in there. I did highlight a little bit here because I just wanted to – these are sort of the important things about defining a future land use designation. So in A, we really address the very specific uses that are allowed in this portion of the special area study. So that's outdoor recreation, a golf course, golf club houses, accessory retail uses. There's the ability for some research and office uses and maintenance facilities, educational programs, and then, you know, cottage lodging, which was discussed in the special area study. And resort-based lodging requires the PD zoning, and then in C is where we really identify that that extension of municipal water and sewer services outside the urban cluster, which we don't normally allow for, but the board can make that decision, is to protect that and that sensitive environmental component. It would not be great to have, you know, big, huge wells out there pulling water to irrigate any more than they might already exist. Commissioner Prezi? Under – okay. You'd think I'd gotten used to the microphone situation after six years, but clearly not. Under the permitted uses, under the cottage lodging, that's temporary lodging? That's considered – that's not, like, homes for staff? That's – We would – we consider that to be temporary lodging, yes. Okay. I think that should be clear. And is there a total number that they're intending on, and can we add that total number to this? We don't have one as part of the comprehensive plan amendment, and I would let the applicant speak about what they think that number might be. Okay. So I do feel it's important for us to put a cap on that, that it's accessory to the golf course amenities. Yeah. Like, this isn't ultimately meant to ultimately expand into a resort. It's meant to be a golf course with accessory lodging for folks that are coming to visit. I'm imagining it's alumni that are coming to visit or – I'm sure that applicant can talk a lot more about what that – Yeah, with that intent. That comment teach our players or something to that effect. Thank you. Yep. Policy 865D, I'm going to go through these slides. If you have questions, I have people that are actually able to answer them. And I'm – Let's go through all the slides, and then we'll do questions. I'm not the best person for it. So 865D limits the irrigable area and sets a maximum irrigation allowance for each of those areas. So you can see that there's a golf area and a non-golf area. Those words are pretty explanatory, the acreages that are in there, and then the inches per acre per year that can be used. And, again, this is for permanent irrigation area, not temporary establishment kind of stuff. It's for permanent – And then there is a policy that also identifies primary water sources of stormwater and reclaimed water, but does have the provision for emergency backup, especially in situations where GRU might not be able to provide enough reclaimed water or something like that. Condition 865E deals with landscaping, and that will consist of native and or Florida-friendly plants. That's detailed more specifically – will be detailed more specifically in the PD zoning and the best management plans that come along with that. And then 865I, which prohibits mineral fertilizer outside of golf play, turf, and event lawn areas. Mr. Chair, we always sort of analyze, even though we're creating a whole new comp plan, new future land use designation, we still have to sort of analyze that consistency with the rest of the comprehensive plan. And we've done that in the staff report. But I did specifically want to talk just about the water and sewer extension because this golf course is outside of the urban cluster. And as I mentioned, generally we prohibit extension of water and sewer outside of the urban cluster, except in some very specific circumstances. And those policies, 315 and 316 of the potable water and sanitary sewer element, kind of detail that out. The urban cluster itself, the boundary is not changing for this. It's just that we will be allowing them to run that sewer and water line to the property. And, again, the purposes of that are for that environmental protection component. Mr. Chair, the Planning Commission heard this item on April 15th and made a recommendation to the board to transmit the item. That was 5-1 or I think it was 6-1. The current hearing that we have tonight is to request transmittal to Florida Commerce for state-coordinated review. So Florida Commerce will review it and provide any comments. And then other state agencies will also have an opportunity to review as well as other local governments that may be interested. Once received, Florida Commerce has 30 days to respond and provide comments. And then once we get comments back, we'll schedule that to come back to the board for an adoption hearing. And at that time, you will also hear the planned development rezoning because that's a single hearing item. Mr. Chair, that is the end of my presentation. Staff recommends that the commission find the application consistent with the comprehensive plan and transmit the proposed comp plan amendment to Florida Commerce for their review and comments. Okay. Commissioner Alford and then Commissioner Pritzker. Thank you. Chris. Okay. So we have, there's an allowance for 60 inches of rain per year. You're already looking for the right person for this. I think it's not, it's 60 inches of irrigation, not over rain. So say, right, 60 inches of irrigation. And we have around 50 inches per year average in the area, except this year we only had four and a half inches since January, something like that. So what would be, would there be any exceptions if we were in a severe drought situation? Are they expected to manage their turf so that it would be, I, you know, I'm thinking about the environmental cost of replacing a bunch of turf versus maintaining it. I just am trying to figure out how that would work in a situation like we're in right now. Mr. Chair, Eliana Bardi with the Environmental Protection Department. I think as we work through the PD zoning and we have best management practices and work contingency plans, but as it is right now, the comp plan language is designed to set upper limits, maximums. And I'm not a golf turf expert. I can let the applicant staff answer to your question, like in drought conditions, is 60 inches going to be sufficient? I don't know the answer to that question. They probably will. But in most of the BMPs, sometimes there are contingency plans where those types of conversation can happen should conditions really change from what we, the average condition is. I was just curious. We wouldn't want them to have to come back to us, but we also want them to maintain the standards that we put out there. So I was curious. All right. Thank you for that. Maybe the applicant can. We'll get the applicant's presentation in the last second. Thank you. You conclude? I conclude. Thank you. Commissioner Brzee. I guess I did also, we didn't specifically touch on it, but the land disturbance on, I guess it's, oh my goodness, policy 8.6.5 F maybe. I was, I was happy to see this policy. I think this is really a critical one. It talks about minimizing disturbance of the native land there during the actual construction purposes. And, and I guess I was interested to understand if that selective clearing is specifically just for the golf course areas or for any and all construction across the entirety of the property. In the selective clearing where it says we'll be permitted within the CMA for allowable uses. It just says land disturbance within the development area will be, will minimize clearing by establishing disturbance limitations interior to and outside areas of vertical and horizontal improvements for construction purposes. So it's throughout the whole entire site. Am I to understand that correctly? Hello. Mary Zoka with EPD, water resources, stormwater quality engineer. Um, yeah, the, that language pertains to specifically the whole project area, anything that will be disturbed. Um, the restriction setbacks are more specifically, uh, tailored to buildings and roadways when we're talking about those setbacks, but it is applicable to the total project area. So anything that will be disturbed. Okay. And then it talks about a nutrient management plan that will be discussed during the PD zoning. So specific applications of like slow release fertilizers or the use and application of produce that would be dealt with during the PD. Yeah. What's been happening at the time and someone may speak to this more clearly, but, um, we've been developing BMPs for different categories. And one of those is a nutrient management plan. And so that's been happening concurrently. Um, we're not a hundred percent there yet, but we're really close, probably 90, 95% there. Well, I just want to commend EPD for all their hard work on this. I can tell that a lot of work went into this and a lot of work went into this from UF as well to get to a place that we can feel good. I mean, you know, about having a conversation about a golf course on really sensitive environmental land. So, or maybe if not good, at least better about it. You conclude? Yeah, that was really my comment. Chris, I don't remember having any in our comp plan water conservation limits on irritable, irrigatable areas. Is this the first? Um, we have, we do have some language that encourages, um, certainly reduced irrigation. We don't deal with it a ton in our comprehensive plan. This is, um, I would say this is probably kind of over and above, um, what we've seen other developments, um, work towards. Yeah, it feels like it. And same with the 8.6.5.1 mineral fertilizer prohibited outside the golf play. I don't remember a policy like that. That's, that's a, yep. Okay. And same with the nutrient management plan. Yeah. So I think, you know, to Commissioner Prizzi's point, thank you staff. Thank you UF for really working through these important issues for Alachua County and getting something that I think is a real model. Something that we haven't seen at least on my 12 years in, in this comp plan. So I appreciate that. Yeah, Mr. Chair, on that point, I would just say, um, the applicant's team worked, um, I would say tirelessly with us, held meetings, um, heard what we had to say and really took those comments to heart and went back and, um, and worked to make changes. So it's, it's been a good process working with them. Yeah, certainly appreciate that. You know, that's just something that, um, we've been talking about, like you said, since this special area study was done. And to have, uh, partners like you have working through those issues really is, um, appreciated. And I think a few of them actually might be here tonight. So we'll hear from them in a minute. Um, I have to wait until 530. Who's here for public comment? Okay, I see. Yeah, so let's go ahead and declare at 530 and take a pause here for public comment. And then we'll have UF give their presentation. Is that okay? Instead of sorry? Okay. All right. So, um, we're going to go ahead and pause for public comment. And Kelly, if you'll come on up. So we give, uh, our citizens an opportunity to speak to us twice a day, once in the morning, once in the evening. So this is our evening session. If you'll introduce yourself, we've got a little light system. Green means go. Yellow means 30 seconds. And red means let the person next speak. And if they're not on, I can talk as long as I want. Start talking, Kyle. You've got free time until that light hits. Oh, okay. She did. Um, I'm here to share some information on behalf of the GBA, which is working to found the SEBRC. That's the version for people that love, uh, initials and acronyms. GBC, G, I'm sorry, GBA is the Gainesville Buddhist Alliance. And that is a group of, uh, at this point, eight different sanghas. Or that's like in, in other groups, you might say denominations. So there are lots of different strands of, of Buddhism that a lot of people don't realize that. But, uh, that group has united in this area. Uh, we meet every last Saturday of the month at 9 a.m. on the lawn of the Thomas Center, West Lawn, just to meditate together. But the group is also involved in fundraising and public education and trying to establish what, what SEBRC stands for, is Southeast Buddhist Retreat Center. So at SEBRC.org, you can access this great conference coming up, May 7th to 11th. We'd love to have you all come to that. It's going to be held at the Indigo Hotel. And, uh, we'll include a concert the night of the second last day of the conference. So it's going to be a very fulfilling experience. There will be lectures and guidance by leaders and teachers from all those different Buddhist groups. There will be, uh, uh, day trips out to various nature sites and to some great vegetarian eating sites. So this is a chance to gain weight and wisdom. And, uh, I hope you will all come and be a part of this. Uh, this organization is really dedicated to, uh, establishing peace in our community through people realizing their individual potential and peace, inner peace. So, uh, again, that's May 7th to 11th at SEBRC.org is where you can register for it. And, uh, look forward to learning and lunching with all of you. Can you give copies of that to the clerk? Or are those your only copies? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Next speaker, please. Anyone else? Yeah, come on up. Come on up. Good evening, Ken. Hey, welcome. Hello, commissioners. Hi, I'm Robert Richardson. I'm an adjacent property owner. I live in Chickasaw Way, so it's really close. Oh, are you here to speak on the item? Yeah. Yeah, you'll get your chance to do that. Okay. This is for items not on the agenda. Oh, okay, thanks. But you got me to 530, so that's great. Anyone else? All right, we're going to close public comment, uh, officially. And we will now, I believe, have, go back to the public hearing. And I believe we're going to hear from the applicant, Chris. Is that correct? That's correct, Mr. Chair. Okay. Representative? Mr. Clements? Good evening, Mr. Chairman. Once a representative, always a representative. Members of the illustrious Alachua County Commission. It's good to be here tonight. Thank you for the honor of an audience. On behalf, I'm the Vice President for Government and Community Relations. My name's Chuck Clements, proud Gator. On behalf of our President, Dr. Donald Landry, and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Maury Hussaini, they bring their welcome. And thank you for the partnership that we've enjoyed for the last at least three years since the inception of this particular project. I want to start off by saying this introduction will be short, but I want to start off with bragging on your professional staff. And, Commissioner Alford, you've mentioned it earlier, they have been nothing but the highest level of professional. We've been enjoying the interaction and the collegial banter back and forth from three years ago to this particular evening. We're looking forward. And I know you don't hear that probably very much from applicants, but it's a true story. Tyler Matthews will be leading our team in presentation tonight. I will assist Tyler if necessary. And if it gets really difficult and the questions get really hard, I'm going to bring up General Dave Kratzer to back clean up if we need him to do that. We have various and sundry professionals, architects, engineers, SOD professionals, people who you heard the joke about whispering in E.F. Hutton's ear. Well, we have the professor that's on the University of Florida staff that whispers into the Florida Department of Environmental Protection's ear, and he helps to write most of the procedures that they use throughout the 67 counties. You'll hear from him later tonight. The first on our agenda, Mr. Chairman, is someone who's going to provide some color commentary, a little bit of excitement before we get into the nitty-gritty of the professionals and their professional speak. He's in his 12th season as the head men's golf coach at the University of Florida. He has brought home to Gainesville one national championship, two SEC championships, and his teams that he has led has brought in victories of over 30 golf tournaments to the Gator Nation. So would you please allow Coach J.C. Deacon to be the first presenter? Thank you, Chuck. Coach, welcome. This is some fun stuff at the Florida County Commission. Probably not as fun as being out on the golf. Here you are. Yeah, we had an incredibly exciting Sunday. We played for the SEC championship against Ole Miss and unfortunately came up just short. But this is a big part of what we're trying to do. So my name is J.C. Deacon. I am the head men's golf coach here at the University of Florida. And, like mentioned, it's my 12th season. And, you know, for a little bit of context, my standing here in front of you tonight is I owe it to the game of golf. It's given me everything. My wonderful family and wife, we have three kids who we're raising here in Gainesville. And I would never have obviously been able to get this dream job if it wasn't for the game. So golf means everything to me. And that's all I do. But this project would really be a game changer for us. We're currently now using a facility that's over 100 years old. And all of our competition in the Southeastern Conference and that other school up north here in Florida has a facility that's just so far above and beyond us. So that's just been tough on us, recruiting the top student athletes to the University of Florida. We have such a great university and obviously playing the game of golf, we have the weather to be the best. And our facilities just held us back from being able to get the top athletes that we'd like to. And then for the ones that we have been able to bring here, you know, just the student athlete experience has probably been a little bit less than our competition's been able to provide just because our facility's so old. So, obviously, I'm incredibly excited about this. You know, it would be a game changer for the athletic department and certainly our golf program. And, you know, I think it would put us in position to be the best golf program in the entire country if we were able to do this. So if you have any questions, I'm here to answer it. But we're just incredibly excited for what it's going to do for the University of Florida and our student athletes. Any questions for the coach? I have one quick question. What's going to happen to the old golf course? From my understanding, we get to keep it. So we're going to have both. And that having the convenience of having the golf course on campus, that's the number one thing that we sell to our recruits right now. And being able to have that and that convenience and then, you know, a state-of-the-art championship facility, that's what's going to give us the ability to have the best facilities in the entire country. I was, and I had, in early discussions, we were hearing that it wouldn't be open to the public. And that's what I was wondering if maybe the old golf course might be something that could be, the original one might be something that would be open to the public. Yeah, from my understanding, nothing's changing with the current facility, and that's really, really important to us and obviously all our students and staff and alumni. So that was exciting when we heard that there was no plan changes. Okay, but for the public? Yeah, I don't think the way Mark Bostick's being run right now, I don't believe that's changing at all. That's currently open to the public. Is it? Well, that's my question. Yes, you have to have a tie to the university, but that's the only requirement. My dad used to take care of the third fairway. He would fill divots on the third fairway. Really? That was his. Good par five there. I've eagled it a couple times. Yeah, I kept him in shape. He was one, yeah, really, until he passed. So thank you. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Okay. The coaches' standards on what holds the eagle are probably different than the rest of us. That's right. That's right. Welcome. Yes. So Chair Cornell, Vice Chair Parisea, thank you for having me. I'm Tyler Matthews. I'm CEO of England Tims & Miller, or ETM. So we are planners and engineers working on behalf of the applicant here this evening. I guess so quick background as we jump into the really technical portion of the presentation would be, I think, to zoom out, and Chris and staff, thank you for your partnership and leadership on this project. I would love to echo that sentiment as well. As the person and the team and the details on behalf of the applicant, it has been a tireless effort. I'm very thankful for staff's involvement there. We don't always get that on the other side of the table. And so, right, Chris walked us through BOCC June of 2020 to county staff working with consultants on behalf of the Lee family at the time in 2021 to the unanimous county commission vote to approve the SAS in November of 2023 on the full 4,000 acres, and then obviously two weeks ago, the 580-acre vote from planning commission and a recommendation from staff to move forward this evening. So, as we get into the team, I did want to briefly introduce really the team of experts that the foundation has put around this project because I think it's really important to understand the caliber of talent we're dealing with here. Mr. Clemens mentioned the IFAS team. We have here tonight both Dr. Lashley and Dr. Unroh. Dr. Lashley's expertise is on habitat and CMA areas, so he'll speak to that. Dr. Unroh's expertise is on turf craft science. He's working with the state and superintendents all over Florida and beyond on implementation of these policies. And so, you'll hear from both of them this evening. We have Arcus Golf, who owns and operates over 75 facilities across the nation, a lot of the preeminent facilities, and they're here. They're not here this evening, but they're on the project team as an operations partner. And then tonight, we also have Steve Smyers, one of the golf course architects here. Steve was previously on the USGA, or U.S. Golf Association Executive Committee. He chaired the Environmental Turf Crafts Committee, past president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects, and a proud alumni of the 1973 men's golf team. And so, you'll hear from Steve as well. He's had a handful of projects in his career, most notably University of Indiana recently, that is a very similar property to this. It's a university project and an environmentally sensitive habitat, and they did a beautiful job there of creating world-class golf and protecting the environment, and Steve can talk you through that this evening. And then we have the rest of the team here this evening would be Rogers Towers, which is Land Use Council, T.R. Hainline, as needed. Okay, so let's jump into some details real quick. Again, Mr. Dawson walked through the steps. We don't need to reiterate many of it, besides it's been a journey from 2020 to 2023 on the full 4,000 acres to where we are this evening. And when you think about the 15 conditions that were the Appendix A to the approved SAS, really tonight is approving policies to implement those. And then ultimately the PD that you'll hear in June are the best management plans or the BMPs that will implement the policies this evening. And so as we think about that flow, that's how we've always mapped it, right? That specific ecosystem started it, that went to the SAS, that went to the SAP, that goes to Land Use, which is where we are this evening, that ultimately goes to the PD. Just wanted to zoom out very briefly. As we all recall, the SAS was on the full 4,000 acres, but here tonight we're here to talk about the highlighted box on the top right, the 580 acres, that is the golf course. We'll keep moving through. These are the maps. Again, Mr. Dawson presented these. The only thing I would mention here to really add to what Mr. Dawson showed in the three different maps, 17A, B, and C, would be the SEH was the broad map. And then through this process, we've continued to ground truth with the green CMA being the really ground truth, most sensitive area that we're protecting, ultimately via conservation easement that will be recorded. And I know there were a few questions on the kind of nipping and tucking, if you will, on how the line works. Happy to answer questions from the applicant's perspective on how we plan to work through that. And we're literally in the process of that right now as we're site planning and as we've received tree survey and geotech and other data from the site. We hit this map. I don't think there's any further items to talk about there. And then, again, happy to answer questions on policies, but these policies, from the applicant's perspective, are the SEH that went to the SAS conditions that went forward to these policies you see here tonight for comp plan. In parallel, we have been working with staff. We're basically there on BMPs, and so I have those fully written. Obviously, Planning Commission heard those as well because they voted on both the PD and the land use. And so from an applicant's perspective and hopefully from a staff's perspective, I think it's been very nice to work the two at the same time because we have a holistic picture. As we're asking questions on nutrient or water budget or karst topography or tree surveys, et cetera, et cetera, some things belong in comp plan, some things belong in PD, and doing both in parallel makes, I think, all of our lives easier. So I'll buzz through these. Y'all have them in your packet, happy to answer questions, but these are the policies that will be adopted tonight with text. Any questions on these, Commissioner? I was hoping you could wait. I can wait. Whatever. You mean, you just ask. Yeah, no, I think that's what I'm asking. Do you want to do these now? I mean, I just have a question about the temporary lodging. How many units of temporary lodging are you? So, perfect transition because this is where I was headed next. So thank you, Chair Prisci. The one slide I missed would just be, and we'll kind of preview a handful of things along the way. A lot of the five BMPs are really PD issues, but they really explain the policies you're hearing tonight, and so we're going to kind of dance that line, if you will. But here, to that question, this is the site plan, as was really driving the PD plan, which, again, that's not why we're here tonight. But on the far left, you see bullet points. This is the scope of the project as we're designing it today. And per the SAS, we capped ourselves at 30, up to 30 units. Obviously, we're not going to build 30 out of the gate. We'll build a handful of day one. And they are, for sure, accessory structures to the club for club activities. So it's not residential development. It's not individually platted. It's all part of one project. Any questions I can answer on that? I know the cottages are always something that come up. Is your clubhouse going to have a restaurant to support the cottages? The intention would be that the member clubhouse has a F&B, or food and beverage, operation that would support the cottages. Also, the team will have their own team house, team clubhouse, if you will. Don't confuse that with lodging. That would be the team's clubhouse. TBD, if they have their own F&B, or if they feed it off the member clubhouse. That'll be an operations question. Are you expecting that clubhouse to be open to all people that are accessing the golf course? Yes. Yes. I mean, think of this as, I mean, the core goal here is a championship golf course for the men's and women's golf team. Okay. To financially support the property, you need to have a membership base. Absolutely. To have a membership base, you need to have the clubhouse and the lodging to support the membership. My question was just if the clubhouse restaurant was going to serve the cottages, and that would be part of the whole same situation. Absolutely. Okay. All right. Thank you. Yeah. Likely, the cottages will have, like, a catering kitchenette. Kitchenette. Yeah. And I know this isn't what we're here talking about. It's kind of a preview of June. Absolutely. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. And we'll, and I mean, I think we're happy to have that conversation. And so we have a lot of PD details. I do want to invite up now Pats National Championship and golf course architect Steve Smyers to walk you through really the inspiration from a golf architect standpoint of how he's looking at this property as we're iterating on design. Thank you, Mr. Matthews. Mr. Smyers, welcome. Welcome to Gainesville. Thank you. Welcome back. I was a former Gainesville resident here, and Tyler dated me. I did play on the golf team from 73, or actually 71 to 75, member of the 73, 74, 75 SEC championship team and NCAA champion. I, when I graduated, I went immediately into the field of golf course design. So I made this comment last time. I'm totally unemployable. It's the only thing I know how to do. Since then, I've worked around, worked around the world, worked on all six continents, and I'm absolutely thrilled to be involved in this. One of the things, you know, there's a lot, and I mentioned this last time, there's a lot of things we as golf architects do from not only a technical perspective, worry about the type of turf grasses, how much water, how much fertilizer, things like that, but really there's a creative or artistic aspect to it. You know, we worry about shot making and how people get around the golf course, but having played, having worked around the world, studied golf courses around the world and played golf around the world, The golf courses that people react to and gravitate to are those that feel integrated to the landscape, those that feel natural to the landscape setting. So we do that as golf course architects almost wherever we work. And the thing that really excites me about this site is we have wonderful soils. We've got some nice, beautiful topography. Not too much if you're walking the golf course where you're mountain climbing, but there's enough to create visual interest. We have some nice trees that we've got to work around and save to create shot making strategy and make you feel integrated into the landscape. And then the native grasses out here. That's what feel, create that seamless transition between golf and the environment. And in the end of the day, no matter how you play, whether you play bad, like Miss Mary was talking about, or you play good, like Coach was talking about, you want to make, create a great journey and a great place to be. And if by creating that seamless transition between golf and the environment, that's what we do. So that's, that would really be our goal, to utilize this beautiful landscape and to make it come alive to the people who, anything else? Very briefly, our son. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So what I like to say when, if they were to take each and every one of us and put us in a helicopter and fly us out to that site and tell us just to walk and just walk for days, we'd all end up gravitating to the same spot. And then we'd go to these places and we'd look around and we'd say, you know, let's walk this direction. So, so, and the places we gravitate to would be PowerPoints, and that's what we call PowerPoints. So we try to take people to those PowerPoints. And what Tyler was mentioning, when I first went to that property, the landowners, the Lee, the Lee family, the first question I asked is, if you were going to build your dream house, where would you build it? Because every landowner, every farmer, rancher, knows the most powerful points on the property. And they took me out to what they say is the most powerful point on the property. So we try to identify that. We try to take people there so they can enjoy the environment. Then the other thing we try to do is move them around the property from landscape, what I call landscape room to landscape room. So you have different settings. You might be high on a high ridge, then you kind of go down to a low valley. You go to one place that might be a pine forest, another place an oak forest, or another one just be an open area with some beautiful native grasses. Or maybe there's a lake there. So we want to take people around the journey where they absolutely enjoy that landscape setting. And then from a golf perspective, that's how they remember the golf course. You know, they remember, hey, the fifth hole is in the oak trees. The fourth hole is in the pine forest, and the third hole is around the karst area. And Tyler mentioned that we did that at Indiana University. And this is almost the exact same type of project as we did at IU because we had karst topography. We didn't have the beautiful soils we have here. We had beautiful lush vegetation, rolling topography, and some nice lush vegetation. So that's the main thing we try to do is try to create a journey around the property. To expose the beauty of the site. Is that it? Commissioner President? Question? Thank you. I'm interested to understand how your, I mean, it is beautiful soils. They're also really permeable soils. Like, basically just a sieve that goes straight to our aquifer. Right, right. So I guess my interest is in how you as an architect work with engineers to incorporate all the technical details. Like, perhaps, tiles underneath the greens that recycle the water that's full of fertilizer. Or things that would help to protect the environment that you're sort of architecting around so that it maintains its integrity. And how that plays into sort of your design work and the engineer work. So, we work closely with the engineers and Dr. Unroh, Dr. Unroh here. Is that something you have to address, how we work together? He's not an engineer. Okay, yeah. Yeah, so my firm's engineer record, obviously Steve's the golf architect. Separately, we have building architect's record. And, I mean, and so as you can imagine, this already for a few years now has been a seamless partnership of pushing and pulling what I need from a free and post and state stormwater rule and, you know, the math of engineering with artistic side of what Steve's trying to accomplish. So are some of those innovative ideas like gathering water underneath the greens being considered? Like, I'm just interested to understand, you know, he's talking about protecting, you know, sort of this natural environment that's integrating, you guys are integrating into. And so I'm just interested to understand how you take that design concept and then move it into an engineering concept. I mean, from a basic stormwater standpoint, we intend to have some lined ponds on the property because we need to hold stormwater and we're accepting reuse from GRU. And so we need a place to hold that water to then turn around and pump it, treat it, pump it, and spray it for irrigation. And so we're going to stormwater harvest and accept reuse into a handful of lined ponds. And then the majority of the stormwater beyond that will be really dry swales and dry ponds. That'll be sheet flow. I think part of the benefit of this being 580 acres is we have kind of elbow room, if you will. If the property was much denser, it would really force our hands on kind of more complicated stormwater solutions. Yeah, I guess I was more interested in sort of recycling of nutrients and the fact that, you know, you spend a lot of money managing the greens, like the areas that are really intensive and require a lot of fertilizer. And some more newer golf courses are starting to sort of create recycling initiatives around those greens. Is that something that you have to consider? Yeah, I didn't quite understand, but, yeah. Yeah. So we build putting surfaces at the USGA specifications. And there's certain roots on a mixed tile. And then underneath that, there's a gravel layer. And underneath that is some PVC pipe. So we take that water, we take that PVC pipe, and we can, at times, put it into a stormwater area. So we'll be able to recycle that and use that water and minerals, I think that's what you're asking. Any other questions? Okay, thank you. Oh, no, we're going to keep going. Yeah, no, no. Okay, for Mr. Smyers. Thank you, Mr. Smyers. All right, so what this is is kind of a preview, if you will. It's the title at the top of the slide of the PD rezoning map. And so this would be a preview of the map that you'll see then, which is starting to set points of ingress and egress. You can see the black arrows on the left-hand side of the screen being Parker Road with our three main points of egress that do line up with the Flint Rock neighborhood to our west. You see the white arrows at the top of the screen that line up with the pedestrian points of adjacency from Oakmont, as well as the bottom right-hand corner of the white arrow that's the contemplated pedestrian access to hail. And so those are the different points of ingress and egress. Yes, you see the black arrows in the middle, if I grab my mouse here, that show the points of crossing of the CMA from both a road and then also cart path or, like, golf maintenance vehicles. And then we also put in here a cross-section that's showing what we've worked on with staff as far as what is the development edge, what is the buffer, and how does a pedestrian path fit into that. And that's the cross-section that I highlighted there in that box on the right. So, again, just a preview of what's to come, but this is the level of detail we're working on. Obviously, for PD, future, we'll have PDPs and FTPs that take it to the next level. And this, I wanted to briefly hit, I know community access was a large part of what was talked about in the SAS. I have another slide, but part of the community access, a big part of it, was pedestrian connectivity. We've worked with staff. We've obviously looked at the county's long-range plan for pedestrian connections, and so that's why you see here the dotted lines that show the pedestrian connectivity on the eastern and northern border, as well as we have contemplated a trail system and part of the CMA. That's what you see here in the bottom part, and so part of our CMA conditions include, really, like, how would that work? What would be the surface of the trail? How would we do that in a way that promotes the community access and, in parallel, promotes the conservation of the CMA? So, happy to answer questions there, but I know that was a big point to talk about. Any questions on that one, Commissioner, right now? Nope. All right. And with that, I'd love to invite Dr. Unroh up to talk about the details of nutrients and water. Excellent. Doctor, welcome. Good evening. By way of introduction, as was said, I am Brian Undree. I've been with the University of Florida IFAS for 30 years, and over those last 30 years, I've been heavily involved with really developing and writing all five of our turf grass best management practices that are codified, memorialized, in state statute and regulation, of which the golf course BMP manual is the biggest and most comprehensive, which led my team to be selected by the National Golf Course. The National Golf Course Superintendent's Association of America to develop their national BMP initiative, and that national BMP initiative now has books similar to this in all 50 states, and we were able to do that in three short years. I also steward the Florida Golf Course Best Management Practices Certification Program. We're the only state in the nation with certification program. It was memorialized in state statute in 2022, House Bill 967. Over the past decade, I've really worked with about every regulatory agency at the state level as well as federal level. In fact, next Monday, I'll be meeting with the EPA administrator in Washington to talk about how golf course BMPs kind of shake out as it relates to the Endangered Species Act to make sure that our BMPs align with policy and then to make sure policy makes sense to those who have to implement it on the receiving end. UF brought me into this project a couple years ago to bring my expertise both in the special area study and the special area plan. Most often, I show up after the golf course has been built trying to fix a problem. So it's been pretty exciting to be on the front end of this to make sure that we do things right from the get-go. And so I've got a few slides. I'm not going to reiterate what's on the slides, but I am going to kind of hit some highlights as it relates to the nutrient management and water quality monitoring program. Golf courses are intensely managed, but intensely managed does not mean excess. And in fact, excess nutrients, excess water are actually quite contrary to championship golf. A few weeks ago, we got to watch the Masters on TV. And if you watch that, you notice towards the end of Sunday, the greens look like they were burning up. We very intentionally dry things out. We keep things very lean because that adds an additional layer of challenge to the game. And that's one of the ways that championship conditions are brought to be. And so, again, excess water nutrient, it's counterproductive. The golf course BMP certification program, which is linked to this project, obviously very much so, is also linked to all of the new basin management action plans that rolled out of the Department of Environmental Protection last year and a few more coming this year. And, in fact, this particular property is situated over two areas that have basin management action plans, one being the surface water, the Orange Creek, and then the Springs or Santa Fe. And so the plans that were put forward on this property align with DEP's requirements for the basin management action plan. And, in particular, the nutrient management plan accounts for all nutrient inputs, not just mineral fertilizer, but reclaimed water, soil amendments that may be added for soil water holding capacity. Compost is kind of a big deal now in the golf world. And so we're going to account for all of those. The basin management action plans, as well as the BMPs, require soil and tissue testing. And then water quality monitoring. I think our plan adheres to the principles, and then working with staff, I think we've included a high level of specificity per their request to make sure that we really go above and beyond what is actually printed in the manual and that is required by Department of Environmental Protection. So in practice, golf course superintendents, those who will steward this property into the future, obviously will be producing records and reports that are required by Department of Environmental Protection on an annual basis. Actually, there's kind of what we're going to do and then what we did that was required annually. But then those plans, as well, that are in the best management practices plan for this property, those data will be shared with Alachua County, as well. Soil tissue testings from which application decisions are made are part of that. And then there is the requirement to maintain the licensure and the certification, also as specified in the basin management action plans. As far as the landscape management plan, I think that's the next floor, the lean conditions, as I said, help promote championship golf. And so the irrigation system design, I think that was kind of mentioned earlier, today's golf courses are quite different from golf courses of the past. And in fact, most golf courses today may have two to three times the number of sprinkler heads as the old golf courses, but they don't throw as far. So that allows us then to have very precise and direct that water exactly where it is needed. Today's systems are very much optimized with on-site weather stations. And a property this large may even have more than one, may have two on-site weather stations that feed that data back to the central computer, as well as moisture sensors leak detection equipment. All of this is documented in the best management practices. Turf health, soil moisture mapping allows for precise hotspot detection, real-time adjustments, more heads, greater precision. The technology from my research job at the University of Florida is really bringing a lot of that to bear on this particular property as well as the other golf courses across the country. Water sources on this property will be reclaimed. And arguably, in my opinion, the best use of that water is to put it on an area that is productive and then returns that water back to the water table. Stormwater capture will also support the irrigation as well. Most golf courses, when we see the lakes, they're not just a target for people to hit to or in. It's where my golf ball usually lands. But those lakes are interconnected, and they become a key component of stormwater capture, which then is reused to irrigate the golf course. And then, as was stated, the no-play areas, and so all the entranceways up and around the clubhouses and the cottages are low-impact development, void of any irrigation or mineral fertilizer. So that is just kind of a snapshot of where we're going and what I've brought to bear on this project. A couple of lights. Yeah, Commissioner Alford and Commissioner Wheeler. Thank you. So, you mentioned groundwater monitoring. Would you have monitoring wells, or how would you monitor? Is that your plan for groundwater monitoring? Absolutely. So, county staff have asked for that. We've complied, basically, up-source, down-source, and then in the middle. One of the staff's suggestions were to actually look at Department of Health, who monitors different wells and reports them. And so, looking, are there wells outside of the property? Are there wells on the property that we could utilize for that purpose, or do we need to install? Excellent. And then the 50, 60, I can't remember how many inches per acre per year of allowed irrigation. 60, 60, since it's per acre per year, and you talk about having hot spots, that's how you're going to manage your water use then, right? By, since it's 50 inches or 60 inches over an acre, you can have 150 inches in one area and zero somewhere else. Absolutely. Okay, just want to make that clear for the public. And then part of the management plans that were put forth, most of our golf courses today have drought management plans. And so, we go in well in advance of a drought and then identify what are those key areas as we move into, you know, a phase one drought or a two or a three. And ultimately, as to address the comment you made earlier, is protecting the asset. And obviously, putting greens, teas are some of the most expensive asset, and so then we prioritize those areas when water becomes restricted. And so, you believe that the 60 inches per year will be enough even during a severe drought situation like we're having right now? So, that means most years, you'll probably be using less than that. Okay, thank you. Good questions from our environmental engineer, by the way. Commissioner Wheeler. And a quick question about, to continue with that conversation. I have a five-acre pond that is completely dried up. We have a nine-acre pond that's completely dried up at this point. Would you feel the need to supplement these watered areas that, if they also dry up, that you feel like, in order to maintain the quality of the course, you have to pump water into that water feature? Sure. And I think, and Tyler had mentioned earlier as well, that several of these ponds will be lined, which may differ from the pond that you have on your personal property. So, we're not losing it down. But it's evaporating. It's evaporating. It's evaporating as well. But when we think about reclaimed water, and then that will be the primary irrigation source for this. And so, as long as people continue to flush their toilets and shower, then that water will be coming as well. Okay. All right. Thank you, Mr. I have one more question. Okay, go ahead. Will you conclude that? Yeah, thank you, Mr. Chair. So, we do have some karst features on the property, including a cave system. And in that cave system, there have been identified some rare, I think, only found in that location, crayfish, I think, something like that. And so, they're used to seeing a certain amount of moisture and rainfall. Is there any way we're going to be able to monitor those natural systems to make sure that we're maintaining what may be the only species in the world like that? Is that a question for Steve or our staff? Well, I mean, I think he can answer it, right? I think when we think about those areas are, the two areas in particular, and then the large area, those conservation management areas. And so, they are, I think, sufficiently large in the cave. And I've been on property and looked at them. They're a relatively small in relationship to a five-acre area that's protected. And then the golf course will be threaded, you know, completely around that. Threaded around that, right. But you don't think there's going to be that much change to the hydrology of the overall system is what I guess I'm asking. All right. Thank you. I appreciate it. Do you want to add anything to say or no? You good? I'm good. Okay. Thank you. All right. Thank you. And that's a perfect segue. I'm going to jump a slide, and then I'm going to invite Dr. Lashley up to the stormwater management component. Okay. So, to that, Commissioner Alford, as we've mapped, what you see on the screen here is a pre-analysis of where stormwater is going. Obviously, we'll have to do a post as well. And as we're looking at that and looking at the cave systems, our permitting with the water management district requires that we don't dry them up. Right. Effectively the same way you'd think about a wetland system. And so, in that regard, we've looked at pre-post. And, to click back a few slides, when you really look at the size of these CMAs, they're big. They're big. So, when you think about the surface water runoff that's making its way in these sandy soils to that cave in an undeveloped condition, I mean, you would think we're not significantly changing the hydrology of the cave. Well, you know, you do talk about the topography of the area, and you're utilizing that. We are. So, I do expect that there would be some change, but it looks like you've protected it. We have. And, as you look, and sorry to keep clicking slides, just as you look at this aerial and then can envision a future plan that we're working with the architects, Steve Smeyers and Bo Welling, we're contemplating, obviously, pre-post from a stormwater standpoint. And, in the BMPs, we talk about that as far as we can't, we don't want to let untreated water run into the CMA. No, we don't. So, you'll have a lot of dry swell components kind of blocking things that need to be treated before it hits the CMA. You, conversely, can't change water going to it too much. Right, yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. And that, I mean, so, briefly, stormwater management plan, obviously kind of a preview. There is a BMP around water and how we're handling cars, significant components of how we're doing our geotech, which then ultimately goes from not only traditional borings, but ERI and GPR as well in certain locations. And then, as you can imagine, there's been some push and pull on not wanting to do too much of that before we received planning commission approval and then this hearing this evening. And so, as we're getting past the vote tonight and then getting into final site plans heading towards PDPs and FTPs is where we'll be implementing the policies. We've worked with staff on our karst research, geotech, ERI, and GPR. And with that being said, I'd love to invite up Dr. Lashley, the other side of IFAS, if you will, that's working with us on the CMAs and habitat and wildlife. Dr. Lashley, welcome. Thank you for being here. Thank you for having me. So, my name is Marcus Lashley, and I've worked all across the southeastern United States, particularly on wildlife habitat management. So, when UF brought me in to this project and my role here was primarily to provide advice and consultation on the conservation management area, which falls within my expertise. I've been with IFAS for seven years. I do teach wildlife habitat management, and my research area is on wildlife habitat across the state of Florida, but also particularly across the eastern United States and many of the states. So, my interest is broad, but I really focus on managing ecosystems to fulfill their ecosystem services. And I enjoy working with a variety of terrestrial wildlife and one that is also located on this property, the gopher tortoise. I have done quite a bit of work with that species specifically. So, there's a number of things that I think are really important with these conservation management areas, and particularly in this landscape. One thing that came up earlier is, what if you hit a golf ball into the management area, what are we doing? And so, there are a couple of things that are going on with the management areas that are important. I think one that would address that is we have a strategic fence system to regulate access. So, if someone hits their ball in there, they may not have access if it's in an area that's sensitive. But also, we want strategic access, as has been laid out here. So, you saw some of the paths that are going to be designed within that management area so that people have access to it and can enjoy those natural resources. The principal goal, though, of the management area is to protect that system and make sure that it continues to function. And there's a number of things that are sensitive, one being that gopher tortoise, which is an umbrella species in the system and very important to the way that it's functioning. They are dependent on maintaining the soil structure principally. So, they burrow into the ground, and making sure that we don't have heavy equipment or other activities around those burrows is pretty important. Another important part of their requirements is to maintain vegetation communities of the native species, but also in herbaceous plants. So, a number of the activities that will be performed in the system are just trying to make sure that the native plant community is maintained and that we keep out other species, non-native species that might disrupt that. So, we are trying to do that in the least invasive way possible, but it may require some activities in that system to maintain that structure and function. Is there anything else? Okay. Commissioner Prisio. What is the mitigation plan for the gopher tortoises that are in the areas where you're anticipating the golf course to be? Are you anticipating that they would be descending, like the receiving area would be the CMA, or that you'll be working with another gopher tortoise receiving area for those? To be relocated. Yes, a combination. I can imagine that those sites are probably being maxed out with their total population because it's a population area. We obviously, we've done sampling of the gophers and the SAS and the prior 2020-2021 work, did sampling that gave us decent population data, but they moved, right? They're wildlife. And so, as we get into final permitting with FWC and we get real numbers, then we'll have to figure out what can the CMA receive versus what will need to go to a recipient site. The gophers within the CMA will stay as is, with the exception of road crossings and cart pass, per the PD map I showed you. If we're building a road to the CMA, we have very limited rights somewhere we can build. And we have flexibility in the language with staff to try and avoid sensitive areas as we're final site planning on those things. But as far as moving the gophers, kind of to be determined what combination they're up. Conclude. Commissioner Wheeler. Is there any way that you could put signage out there somewhere to let people know that these are endangered and if they do happen to cross that path, you know, that they should be not bothered, you know. But also, you have armadillos, too, and they also burrow into the ground and will tear up your landscape, too. So, I don't know. What else are you seeing on that site? What other kind of wildlife? There's a number of species of birds and mammals that would be common in the area. So, the birds shouldn't be an issue, you know, unless you're hitting stuff up in the nests or things like that. Right. But is there something else then? Are there... In terms of sensitive species? Yes, yes. Really? Or fox squirrels. You don't see fox squirrels or anything like that in there? There are fox squirrels in the area, and they generally are not as sensitive in this type of landscape context. Really, the gopher tortoise is... The gopher and probably in the pesky armadillos, right? They certainly can cause some issues. They would probably be removed then, too. Yes. And from a habitat standpoint, the poppy mallow would be, obviously, not wildlife, but on the vegetation standpoint. Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay. All right. Well, thank you. Thank you, Mr. Chair. You're welcome. Okay. Thank you, Doctor. Okay, Mr. Matt. I have a few final slides for us. And as you can see, Dr. Lashley and Dr. Unrow, great to have world-class experts that are here in their hometown working for UF. So it's incredible, the partnership with IFAS on this project, which brings me to community access. I know this was something we talked a lot about. These were a few of the specific conditions, specifically number 15 from the SAS. And there's really three components of how we look at community access. The far left one is trails and outdoor rec, which is why we wanted to do some trails in the CMA. There, our intention is to prioritize existing trail roads that the Lee family had, just to minimize disturbance. And then you also think about the components of trails around our perimeter that we're committed to that are taking kind of really significant acreage when you really look at how big they are. The middle component would be the partnership with IFAS and research on this property in the current site plans we're drawing. The IFAS facility is quite large. We see this as a great living laboratory for IFAS. And then on the far right side, we're working with the FIRST-T program to do a youth development facility that would have their own portion of this property as well. And so those three components, and I failed to mention, excuse me, on the far right, we've also been talking with Coach Deacon about what partnerships would look like with local high school programs to get them out here on, obviously, scheduled appointments. Yep. Elaborate on that just a minute, because I was going to ask you about the high school kids. Yeah. This is our teacher. We have teams, and Dr. Lane is the one who, you know, introduced the FIRST-T to me, you know, when I started pushing all for that, for sure. And our high school kids don't have West End anymore, which is where they use. So please, you know, elaborate on what you mean for our golf teams at our high schools who are also looking for championship opportunities. For sure. I can guess I also would love to invite either Coach Deacon, yeah. Yes. So, and I guess specifically, do you want to talk FIRST-T at all, or just high school? No, well, FIRST-T, everybody loves little kids. Yeah. You know, yeah, we do want to know about that. Let's start with the high school, then. Yeah, the high school kids are the ones. Yeah, so we have a really neat story going on right now with our women's golf team. Caitlin Huber was a high school student in town here in Gainesville. And she's starring on the UF women's golf team now in her freshman year. She just went undefeated at the women's SEC championship. But Caitlin's such a cool story for everyone because I've been watching her since she was a little girl out there practicing at Bostick constantly. So that's something near and dear to my heart. And, you know, obviously we don't know who all would be interested in practicing out there. But, you know, giving high school kids access to that is a major part of this, for sure. I think I know that Newberry has a team that they wanted to get some practice time somewhere. Yeah, Gainesville high school golf is getting pretty competitive. So they need facilities. Well, look after them, our kids, too. Because, you know, the university's right here. And not to be able to offer that to our youth in the community, I think it would just be a shame. I agree. Thank you. Good. I like you a lot. Thank you. Commissioner Alford? Since you mentioned the, I guess it's the woodland poppy mellow is the one that you're referring to, which is the endangered poppy mellow in Florida. That's correct. It's only like in four counties, I believe, in Florida. So I worked on a site very near where this is located. And we actually work with the Florida Wildflower Foundation to relocate the poppy mellows. Are you guys doing something similar to ones that you encounter in the areas that you're putting in turf? So I guess I would defer. Or is it all in the CMA area? I mean, so far, everything was found in the CMA area, which is why, which is part of what really is we're iterating with staff on the final shape of the CMA. Poppy mellow was this, poppy mellow and karst were two of the most kind of easiest things to pick is where should the line be. And then I think this would be the component back to nipping and tucking of the CMA. Right. You think, I mean, we all look at these maps every day, but then when you get in the field and you say, you know, is the line here or is it three feet this way? And part of that final determination that will ultimately go into what is put in the conservation easement was exactly where is the poppy mellow, exactly where is the tree that we're trying to protect, et cetera. I was going to ask because I don't think that our relocation plan worked extremely well. No. So I appreciate the fact that that's how you're dipping. There's none that we found outside of the CMA. Okay. Well, that's excellent. Thank you. And thank you for bringing that up. Conclude? Yep. Commissioner Wheeler? Just one. Now the T. Yes, ma'am. Now the first. Yes, please. Because now that the press is watching and everybody's like, I want to hear you say it out loud and being there. Okay. So we are committed and we committed this in the SAS and the condition number 15 that obviously was part of the BOCC vote. So we are committed to doing a first T, you know, or equivalent. It is our intention to the first T. They are a third party entity that we don't control. Okay. We are in talks with their leadership. Okay. There's not a first T chapter in Gainesville today, but the Tampa chapter has committed to helping seed this. So we're in preliminary talks with them. And in our current site plan, we have shown their facility and their kind of smaller range. And actually it is personal to me as well because my eight-year-old and six-year-old son are actually in the first T program. Okay. That's what I wanted to explain what age group and who it's open. Yes, ma'am. So the youth development program is targeting younger kids, really elementary age. I don't know exactly where they cap out, but it is my two sons, eight and six, playing the first T, and it's a great community program that really makes golf accessible to everybody. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Tampa doesn't have Caitlin Huber or Coach Deacon. We've got a lot of wonderful athletic children in our community and they need access to. Make that part of the record. Okay. Go ahead. And then here, so coming in for a landing, Planning Commission voted five to one with one abstaining to recommend transmittal. Staff has recommended it. It has been a really a joy to iterate with staff over the last few years on this project. And we look forward to the vote this evening, answer any final questions, and look forward to being back in front of you for a PD and then a PDP and a FTP as we continue towards opening this great course. I'll turn it over to the representative to close this up. Representative or Vice President, what do you prefer, sir? As long as you call me to the table, Mr. Chairman. Okay. Mr. Clements, welcome back. Thank you and reiterate everything that's been said about the collaboration that's been going on for years on this project. Each and every one of you elected officials have your constituency to answer to and the hard questions that you have asked to bring us to this particular point. It is so good to represent the University of Florida and have the plethora of subject matter experts to be able to bring to bear. And I would probably venture to say there may not have been any other applicants that have been this well equipped to answer the questions and to rise to the occasion to provide those levels of protection that, you know, basically our community demands. And so with that, I'll yield the balance of my time. I'm really glad I didn't have to bring General Kratzer up because his fee goes up if he stands in front of the podium. So we're looking forward for a vote tonight to transmit. And we concur with your staff that this is a good project and is worthy of getting to the next step. So thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. Commissioner, any further questions? Otherwise, I'll take a motion. I do have, I do have, I guess I would ask the motion, the policy 8.6.4 that we iterate that any boundary adjustments would be for the protection of the natural resources for the CMA. And then in 8.6.5 A that they are accessory temporary stay cottages and that they're capped at a total of 30 cottages. Any objections? Okay. In that case, I'll make the motion that the board transmit the proposed map and the text amendments to the Florida Commerce for their review. And comment with the changes that Commissioner Parizia has requested. Second. Got a motion and a second. Okay. Thank you, commissioners. And you heard those two changes? You're good with us. Okay. Great. Excellent. Any further comments from this board? Mr. Wheeler. I just, I just want, I just want to let you folks know that it's been a long, a long haul on this. And the reason that it's been a long haul is that, you know, we're very protective of our, the remaining farmlands. And we care about the Lee family. They have persevered. Even when we put roadblocks, they've had, they've been called terrible names. They, because of trying to make that land work, not only for the family, but for the community as well. And so I, I think, you know, just as you go forward that you understand that the community is hurting in a lot of ways as we watch, you know, our big areas of land go away. Now, I know we have a lot of land left in this piece that is going into conservation and that the Lee family is able to hold on to the pieces of theirs that is, that is valuable to them emotionally and personally. But just know that, you know, that the motion didn't come real quick right now. It's because everybody's a little hesitant, a little hesitant. And there are going to be people who are going to be speaking to it now and that we're going to be hearing from down the road who are, are worried and a little heart sick. So, you know, we're, we're glad for the partnership as, as long as you all give us that grace to understand that, you know, we are representing people in the community who are, you know, are feeling a little, a little nostalgic about all of this. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Commissioner Wheeler. Commissioner Prisian. I mean, I guess I'll just say to that, I think it's, I think that there's been a lot of, a lot of misunderstanding too. There's been some emails about us doing this project as if this was our conservation land. And we've had some people making comments about, you know, stop this from happening. I think it's really important for people to understand that, you know, that it isn't conservation land that the county owned. We would never sell conservation land for development, at least not as long as any of the commissioners up here are alive or the EPD staff that we have now who are in charge of those programs are around. And so I just wanted to be clear about that, you know, and that this, you know, is an allowed use within the zoning category that exists. And while that may not be something that would be done in today's zoning categories, you know, that, that is something that was a decision made by a commission long before we ever existed. And so we are left with sort of that legacy and the decision, and I think that what we've done is made lemonade out of lemons and I think that the University of Florida has come to the table and work with our staff and I can honestly say like, you know, I've looked around the state at some of the work that's being done on golf courses and trying to find best practices and, and in order to look at the ways in which golf courses are interacting or not interacting well with our natural environment. And I think our staff have really probably held UF's feet to the fire quite a bit and UF has come to the table to come up with some solutions that I think are going to make all the difference in protecting the natural resources that we have out there. So I really appreciate everybody that got to this point. You know, would it have been the outcome I would have liked to have seen for this property? Probably not. But I do think that given that this is the direction it's going, I think that we're getting the best possible outcome. And I think that this will be a model of what's possible for golf courses in other parts of our state that need to protect our sensitive natural resources and our water resources. So thank you to UF and to our staff for all the work they've done. And I guess I did have one question for UF and that is you all mentioned that the 2,600 acres on the other side of the line, I know it's not part of this, but is an IPAS stewardship. Can you talk briefly to what the plans are for that 2,600 acres? I'll pull back up a slide just because I'm in the map business, so I like looking at a map. Let's go all the way back here. So the SEH, as we saw from Mr. Dawson's presentation, was over, you know, effectively this area went a little bit outside the Leland to the north and east, or excuse me, south. But nonetheless, the SAS was approved for this 4,000 acres. Tonight we're here to talk about the 580 in the top right. So the west of Parker is the 2,600. It is owned by the university, as you mentioned, but in stewardship of IFAS. I mean, all plans around it are it's a working forest, and Dr. Engel's team have been developing kind of what does that look like to have a civic culture laboratory. But that is the current plan. And then you see there also the CMA and green stripe over, use my mouse here, over a significant portion of it was the most sensitive land from karst and vegetation that was, even had the heightened level of preservation and protection on it. Yeah, I guess that's my interest and concern. That component of this is, like, really important and really, really very endangered, critical, you know, sandhill habitat that we don't have a lot of left. And there's a lot of, I've traveled that land with Belize, and there's a lot of, I know that our wildlife expert who's in here somewhere and habitat management expert knows for sure. There's the seed bank there and the habitat and the opportunities for restoration there are really huge. I'm just wondering, you said silviculture. Silviculture and restoration aren't at all the same thing. Are they planning to do restoration activities in the areas that are sensitive to sandhill, or are they planning? Mr. Clements, I know they, I know that Dr. Engel's working on the whole kind of west of Parker being a silviculture laboratory, learning center. I don't know the details. I know that Red on his team has been working through the details of that. My understanding is that the CMA has a different level of planning than the other. It does, Mr. Chairman and Vice Chair, Dr. Engel and the IFES team are working to how to maximize this as a learning laboratory in a conservation area that would be undisturbed other than from the academic side and the studies of the various subdivisions of IFES and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. So the only thing, and I know we're not talking about that tonight, but for your edification, in the future there wouldn't be much or any development on that 2,600 acres other than perhaps a place for classrooms and for maybe storage for equipment. And those are the only two things that are on the drawing board that can be foreseen in the next 5 to 10 years anyway. But primarily a learning laboratory for university students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences under the auspices of some of the gentlemen that you've seen here with the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. I just had to say, you know, I have two engineering degrees from UF, and I remember sitting in a class, and I can't remember if it was Dr. Koopman or Dr. Chattuck or Dr. Zoltek, but one of them said, if you're ever playing golf and you hit your golf ball into a body of water on a golf course, you need to carry rubber gloves to reach in and get that golf ball out of the water because the water is so contaminated on golf courses. I see this as something completely different, a place where people will be able to put their hands into the water to get their golf ball out without worrying about, you know, dying of cancer 10 years later. But I also hope that given the engineering students at UF and given the level of consultants that you have working on this project, that you are making this a learning experience for the students at UF as well. You know, I want them to see this as a real example of all the ways that things can be done better and how government and the university and private industry can all work. work together to create a good thing. And so I'm hoping that this is an opportunity as well for the students. That's all I have to say. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Alford. Okay, we've got a motion on the floor. Any further discussion from this board, we're going to put it out to the public now. This is an opportunity for the public to come speak to the motion. You'll have three minutes. If you want to come up, introduce yourself. We've got a light system. Now is your opportunity. Come on up. Yep, come on up. Good evening, commissioners. Hey. My name is Janice Gary. I'm not nuts about a golf course being put on a strategic system, but nobody wanted my opinion. I live in Live Oak, which is right smack in the middle of Gainesville. And every morning when I get up and go in my yard and my landscaping, there are little holes that have been dug by raccoons and armadillos and the creatures we've talked about here. I don't have gopher tortoises like the golf course will have. But I just want to point out that animals move around, and I'm not sure that they respect tees and that they respect greens and that they won't be digging around. And I hope there's some kind of plan for how to respond to the disturbance of golf course areas by the animals because it's unpredictable. I also would like to suggest that it would be good to inform golfers about the sensitivity of this area and set some guidelines for how they might use this golf course differently than a golf course in Indiana, for example. Because there are ways if they lose a golf course, which I promise they will, and you folks won't have to worry about losing your golf balls because you won't be invited to play there. There is a high level of public concern, as Commissioners Wheeler and Prizia have mentioned. And I have a lot of trust and respect for our staff and for this commission, and I appreciate the hard questions, and I appreciate that you have looked at it so diligently. I would like for there to be some consideration of Dr. Michael Okun's work that shows the incidence between Parkinson's disease and herbicide and pesticides, and his recommendation that people who live within a mile of the golf course be advised of when herbicides and pesticides are applied. I really thank the staff, and I really thank you, Commissioners. I'm glad you're the folks making these decisions. I appreciate you. Thank you, Janice. Thank you for your comments. Anyone else? Come on up. Now's your opportunity. Thank you. Hi, Ken. It's me, Rob Richardson, again. Welcome back, Rob. I live right next door to this on the east boundary, and I was just wondering, is that going to be like a linear park up along the east side for public access? Yes, and I was wondering if there's been any discussion with invited clubs or the pale course, if there could be any connectivity, you know, between the 4th and 5th greens there. You know, it might be a good idea to share the course and everything. But I support the project. It's been very thoroughly done. They aren't doing it on the cheap, and I think it will be a good benefit for the community in the future. Thanks, Rob. All right. Thank you for your comments. Anyone else? Okay, I'll close public comment. Mr. Matthews, you want to answer that question about the connectivity? I know during the study, it was a condition that was not open for vehicular traffic, but that we are encouraging pedestrian and, I don't know, golf cart, but pedestrian bicycle traffic. Absolutely. Yeah, so there's a few components to talk about here. We're obviously kind of contemplated a little bit in policy that's being voted on this evening and then further detailed in the PD. But a preview to the PD would be this bottom right arrow. And you can see the footnote in here. And I might be able to zoom in on the screen. Here we go. And this was the PD as currently drafted that says pedestrian and bicycle access only, no construction access, which is directly aligned with what this commission heard in November of 2023. I remember multiple Hale residents asked that that road not connect. So that's why that node is conditioned that way. I will say it is worth noting that the county does not own the public right-of-way of the extension of Southwest 46, unfortunately. The golf course itself extends kind of right through here, as mentioned, between two different holes. Our contemplation in the drafted PD is that we would provide a multi-use path that connects down to that area with the hope that the Hale community would be willing to connect to it, that would provide pedestrian ingress and egress across the property. Right now, I guess you could consider a trail a linear park. But right now, as drafted, we have a 10-foot multi-use path that would meander in the buffer on the eastern boundary of the property. Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Prithio. Yeah. I was just wondering, if staff understand why we don't own the right-of-way there? Was that a scrivener's error during the platelet? What happened there? Like, that seems like something that we should have. I know the answer to that. Okay. Because I talked. Hold on. Hold on. Let's get Mr. Hayes to answer. Yeah, he can answer it, too. But I've spoken to the residents about this ad nauseum. Mr. Chair, Jeff Hayes, Growth Management Director. So doing some research, I don't know if you recall, when we were looking at the special area study, all of the maps we were looking at at that time showed that area, did not show a separate deed being recorded in that area. There is a separate deed. That area was never dedicated via plat to Alachua County. There's about a hundred foot or so, or maybe it's a little bit more, distance at the end of 46, between 46 and this property that's retained by the developer of Hale Plantation and still is in ownership of Hale Joint Venture. So it wasn't a requirement that we know of of the development of regional impact or the plan development and or when those plats came in, was not required to be extended to the property line. So how do we build a path over a property that we don't own? We do not. I think the two conversations and the conversations and we've just had very informally, both with the applicant and then also just with some folks in Hale Plantation is to, there's two areas. So there are the area to the north that Mr. Matthews just pointed out is owned either by the golf course and there's actually some buffer area adjacent to that that may be possible. And then the other would be to work with the property on ruins, the larger piece. Okay, I got it. Yeah, that would be the joint three Hale Village Association since it was never transmitted, as I understand it, from the developer to anyone. Got it. So it sort of fell to the three, you know, three different property associations. And as I understand it, most of them are very amenable to connecting via a path. They were actually very pleased to know that they had that ownership so they could kind of control what happened. So we either work with them, we can make that happen, or we'll work with the app. Okay, good. All right, back to the board. Any further discussions or items before I make some final comments? Okay, so my comments are, you know, this started on June 9th, 2020. That was Mr. Riley, Mr. Hutchinson, when we implemented this plan. I remember both of y'all were running, actually, in primaries. I remember that moment. I was here, too. We went on that property together. Oh, yeah. Well, not together, but the same day. Yeah, so this board puts this side. And what I remember about that time is it was smack dab in the middle of COVID. And not only were we working with UF on many of the things for our community, but, you know, we were looking at this and giving direction on what's the scope of work for this special area study. Then, obviously, this board, you two came on the board. And in November of 2023 is when we actually approved that special area study with the Lee family. And at that time, it was a little bit different. The legislature hadn't done what the legislature was going to do. And so that was when we said, okay, let's ground truth this, and then let's build our plan around what's on the ground. And I just want to say that I really appreciate it. I mean, we had 15 conditions. We really took what was there and what was important to this community and created those conditions. That was a long meeting. I remember that meeting. We were following the direction of our EPD staff. And, you know, you all heard me say we've got the best EPD staff in the state. And I just want to thank ETM and the University of Florida. You didn't have to go through this. You could have very easily just put this in your own master plan, but you didn't do that. You said, you know what? This is obviously important to the community. They came up with 15 conditions. Their elected leaders had asked them to make those conditions. And so let's work with our staff, and let's really make this an example of what we can do working together and building a championship course that Coach Deegan and the University deserve. You know, Florida's all about being number one at literally everything. And so I want to thank UF and thank our staff because it's been two and a half, three years to get us to where we are tonight. Chuck and I have had a lot of conversations. You know, we've worn different jackets and different political lives, but we both wear orange and blue. We both wear that jacket, and that's what this community is about. It's about supporting each other, and it's about working together to get to the best end result. And I'm really pleased with our work of our staff, thank you, and with the work of the University of Florida. And I haven't had an opportunity to work with you. Boy, the way it's starting out, I'm really pleased with all of y'all's work and the way that you're talking to our staff, not only about what the condition, but what was the intent, what was the concern, how do we overcome that, how do we actually make that into an asset? Janice, I love you, and I appreciate your comments, but I think this is a great opportunity for us to show the community what we can do together. I've always said we've got an 800-pound gorilla in the University of Florida, and when they lean in on things that we do, we always have a better result, and so I want to thank the university for doing that. I didn't know, Mary, that you were a double gator, two engineering degrees. I knew you had one. I didn't know you had two. I'm a double gator, too, and so I love the University of Florida. I was brainwashed at the age of three. My dad was taking me to Doug Dickey Games, and I didn't know there was another university that I was allowed to go to, so I ended up going to the University of Florida and am really pleased with where we are tonight. So with that, I want to thank you all, and we'll call for a vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That motion is unanimous. Thank you. Okay. All right. So that's the majority of the room, so thank you all, and we'll see you in June, if not soon. June 23rd. Okay, June 23rd. It's already on the calendar. Wow. All right. All right, Madam Clerk, that brings us to our next item. All right, so we're going to take a five-minute recess. We'll take a five-minute recess, and we'll reconvene in five minutes. Reconvene the public hearing, and Madam Clerk, do you want to go ahead and announce the item? Okay, it's my townhome subdivision. Okay, and with that, I think the attorney's got something that we're going to hear. Okay. Go ahead. Yes. Anyone wishing to testify or present evidence during this hearing will be sworn in prior to speaking. Speakers may ask questions, respond to comments, and provide written materials to the commissioners for consideration. The decision must be based on competent substantial evidence provided during the hearing tonight. And, Mr. Chair, as a spoiler alert, we do not have anybody who has requested party status for this item. But if they do, they are going to be sworn in, and a lot of testify. All right. Do we have any parties here? I don't see any. All right. We're going to go ahead and do the swearing in and then the ex parte communication? Or which one first? All right, ex parte first. I have not. If you will please stand and raise your right hand and be sworn in. Do you swear, affirm, that the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and everything? Thank you. Chris isn't going to speak to us tonight, which is fine. He can sit right there. If he wants to, we'll swear him in. All right, and with that, Ms. McLendon, you are recognized. I have been sworn in, and my resume is on file, and this item has been properly advertised. This is a preliminary development plan for the Chesnut Townhomes Subdivision. So this is for up to 72-lot single-family attached subdivision. It's located at 5872 Southwest 79th Way. It's on just over 10 acres. It has the medium-density residential future land use and the R-1B zoning. So that land use allows four to eight dwelling units per acre. So the maximum density would have been 80 units. They are proposing a maximum of 72. Location here is Archer Road, Southwest 79th Way. This is the Chesnut Village Subdivision. You have Park Lane to the east, an activity center with Publix further east, Tower Road. This connects into Hickory Forest, and then you have Valwood to the north. Aerial view of the site. You can see largely pasture, an existing home site. They are proposing to retain many of these buildings for future use for clubhouse and activities for the subdivision. You can see here as well the existing road that's stubbed to this parcel that were intended to serve this site. So these are some of the existing conditions. This is from the south. This is Southwest 79th Way going north that ends into the parcel. And then further and continuing on Southwest 79th Way, the existing drive that's there and just some of the existing conditions on that property now. And this is from the west side, from Chesnut Village. This is Southwest 60th Avenue heading east into the site. So with these projects, we always start with open space and tree preservation. The minimum required is 10% for general open space. There are two landmark live oaks on the site, these locations here, and I'll talk more about those with the tree preservation slides. They're also doing open space around these existing homes. There's some existing trees there, and so that will be the general open space for the subdivision. And tree preservation, so these are the two landmark live oaks, and those are trees that are 45 inches or above and rated a four or higher out of a five-point scale. There's a 55-inch tree in the northern property area here, and this is a type of, this is actually a 55-inch tree, Silliline and Morick live oak in this location here. They are, because of the density that they're providing, required to save a minimum of 10% of the existing tree canopy. They are proposing to save 36%. They are also saving many of the existing trees around that existing home site. Just more details on those trees. Again, this is that one in the north site. With the recently updated tree code, they are showing the appropriate tree preservation zone, and then they are allowed to impact up to 50% of that area. We'll look at the details with that at final. This shows just almost 18% impacted area. So they're within those limits, and we'll review all the details with the final development plan. And again, my apologies, this was, it says 64, I guess it's a 55-inch tree based on where our forester measured it. But again, this is going to be within that stormwater area. It shows kind of a 30% impacted area. That shows on this hatched line here on the outer limit there. And just the general preliminary development plan. So we have the street network, so the stubs will continue into the site. So they're provided for a connected network to the west and then south to Archer Road. And then within the site, there are no other opportunities for continuing or stubbing the roadway network. And then the blocks, I'll meet the typical block sizes, and all the streets will be reviewed with final, but they'll have sidewalks and appropriate street trees and landscaping. So this is all stormwater on the west side here. I did want to point out, too, there's no buffers required, but they are providing a 10-foot-wide common area along the north and the south of the site. And with that stuff, the preliminary development plan is consistent with the Alachua County Comprehensive Plan and the Unified Land Development Code, and staff recommends approval of the preliminary development plan for Chestnut Townhome Subdivision and Resolution DR-2609. And that concludes staff presentation, and the applicant is here as well with the presentation. Okay, any questions? Do you want to hear from the applicant? Yes. Okay, let's hear from the applicant. Send in their secret weapon. I guess I scared everyone out of the room. That's my secret weapon. I wish I could do that all the time. Thanks for having us tonight. I'm Clay Swager with EDA Consultants with Sergio Reyes as well, civil engineer. I'll just give you a very brief presentation at the risk of repeating a lot of the information that Ms. McClendon presented to you. This is a preliminary development plan project is known as Chestnut Cottages, different spelling than our esteemed commissioner, so no conflict of interest here. It's about 10 acres in size. It's sort of a hole in the donut. There's development in this area on all four sides. The land use and zoning allows it up to eight units per acre, or 80 units. This is a PDP for single-family attached units at 72 units, about seven units per acre. And so this is just a context map for the land use and zoning. As you can see, the MDR property and the R-1B is up to eight units per acre. And this PDP just brings forward to implement what's allowed in those designations. This is the hole in the donut. There are a couple residential structures on the property, long-time properties. Chestnuts owned a lot of this land. We actually brought forward the subdivision Chestnut Village, surrounding it to the south and to the west a number of years ago. Some of you all may have been on the commission when that occurred, maybe just Commissioner Cornell. So this is sort of almost a phase two, if you will, of that original family-owned property. You'll also recognize a property, about an eight-acre property, was owned by the Beale family for many years that you all voted to rezone that property recently. So I think there's going to be some development activity occurring there. So really, those are sort of the last two pieces in this entire area. We had a neighborhood workshop. There were a lot of questions about how is traffic going to work and where do I go and how is this going to affect me. So I think we did a good job of answering those questions, as that we don't have a complete room full of people. But this map will help explain to the commission transportation access and vehicular access in particular. You can see we've got stub outs to the west that we're connecting to in Chestnut Village and to the southeast, the 79th Way. There are connections to Hickory Forest, which has a connection. And actually, part of the transportation analysis that we're going to be doing, we're already starting to do with this project, is to look at a signal warrant analysis for that intersection. That's a potential positive situation there that's being analyzed. Another, as I briefly mentioned, is this eight-acre property. I believe a development proposal is coming soon. Our firm actually had proposed a PDP for someone else many years ago, and there's a required interconnectivity piece there, east and west. Definitely here and potentially here as well. The point of that is, hopefully in the near future, there will be an opportunity for everyone who, not just in this proposed project, but Chestnut and Hickory, this intersection aside, they'll have opportunities to get through Park Lane and out to a signalized intersection. So I think the interconnectivity policies in the county's plan are working. It just takes some time to get there. Sometimes it's painful while you wait for a few years. But I just wanted to highlight those for you, because that was really sort of the primary questions, concerns, if you will, at the neighborhood workshop. So this is the PDP, 72 units. There's five blocks. As we always do with county projects, we work with the county arborist first, and they rank the trees, giving us a priority and a hierarchy of trees. So there are two landmark live oaks on the property, and those will be both being protected. Those are in the red circles, as Leslie mentioned. There's also a couple structures, and we'd like to retain those, and it should be really nice. They're going to convert that home into a community building for the neighborhood. A lot of green space there. You can see the hatching of where the trees will remain. So it would be a nice wooded area. We've got those road connection points. We've got almost twice the amount of qualifying open space. We almost have twice the amount of tree canopy that's required, as I mentioned. Green space is about over 40% of the property. And we are going to provide on-street visitor parking. I know that's been a question from the board over the years, and we've got a nice stretch of road here on the south side in particular. It doesn't have lots fronting it, or a few lots fronting it. So we've got room for some parallel parking. So we're going to provide it there and some other places in and around the project and also in the community area. So there will be some parking for visitors and, I guess, anyone else who's coming to the neighborhood. So with that, I'll conclude our presentation. We've brought it to you to comply with all the regulations in the comp plan and code that you expect to see. And I appreciate the chance to present to you. If you have any questions, we'd be glad to answer them. Thank you, Commissioner Prisian. That northern, you are providing a buffer not required, but thank you for creating that. Is that a vegetated buffer, and is there a fence between that and the neighbors to the north, or is that their backyards that they see you all? Mr. Chair, yeah, those are backyards from Valwood, the existing neighborhood. And they would be backyards in block four and five. And there is a landscaped area. It's technically not a required buffer. So we called it a common area, but it will have landscaping in it. There's fences all along those back property lines with our neighbors. And to answer your question that you asked, this is all stormwater, sort of a tiered system, if you will. And so that will be landscaped as well. And there will also be landscaped in the south end where these existing lots back up. Motion to approve the proposed primary development plan resolution of DR2609. Second. Got a motion and a second? Yes. Motion and a second? Okay. Any other discussion? I just want to say that, Clay, you really know this board well enough that when I see him coming, I know that when I say you're a secret weapon, I really believe that because you understand what's important to us up here. And you can convey that to whoever it is you're working with. And I really appreciate it because it really does cut the chase. We just get it done. Save the trees. Put the buffers in. That's it. Yeah, not even required, added the green space, you know, connected the stormwater. Really nice jump. Thank you, Clay. Thank you, Sergio. And thank you to the applicant. He does all the hard work. Yeah. They'll be for sale, platted and for sale. Down home for sale. And thank you to our staff. Okay. Any further discussion? Any public discussion to the motion on the floor? No need for Chris to speak. Back to the board. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion is unanimous. Okay. Commissioners, I think we are done for the day. Yeah. Like I said at the beginning of the meeting, what a difference two weeks makes. It gets better every day. Thank you all for a productive day. And we stand adjourned. Long day for such a show.