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Community Development Board on 2025-12-16 1:00 PM - Dec 16, 2025

Clearwater, FL City Council December 16, 2025 29 minutes
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Speaker21:23

development board is called to order on december 16th welcome everyone uh for those who wish please rise for the invocation heavenly father as we come before you today to discuss important matters we ask for your guidance and wisdom you are the source of all knowledge and understanding and therefore we seek your direction in our decision making process help us to listen attentively to one another with open hearts and minds may we not be too quick to judge or criticize but instead to seek understanding of our different perspectives we pray that you will give us a discernment to make the best decisions for the greater good we pray in your name amen amen please join me in the pledge of allegiance pledge allegiance to the pride of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all this board consists of seven members and one ultimate who are appointed by the city council and serve voluntarily i am michael bootscuss and i will ask the other members and the staff to do themselves beginning on my left andy park obray hold record mike mastersario jay danio attorney for the board matt manage assistant city attorney development lauren matsky planning and development diane agenelli michelle chenall andrew hup please remember to turn off your cell phone so that you do not become a distraction during the meeting please also refrain from having conversations in this room so that you might hear all the testimony given today to ensure a complete record of this board's actions we ask that each individual wishing to speak including the applicant speaking to the microphone at the podium in front of us clearly state your name and spell your last name for the clerk now we'll ask all those in attendance today who plan to speak to please rise and be sworn in by the clerk thank you agendas of today's meeting on the podium to your left near the entry door also on this podium are a roster of the community development board the list of city staff experts and their resumes the board's rules of procedure and the annual schedule of this board our first order of business to review and approve the minutes from last month's meeting someone's had a chance to do so may have a motion to approve i make a motion to approve second second motion made and seconded all in favor say aye aye all opposed motion carries our next agenda item is items not on the agenda is there any person wishing to address the board concerning any matter does not appear on today's agenda seeing none we'll proceed with our consent agenda we do have a request for continuance first so i'll take that first so in matter fld 2025-07017 tdr 2025-07001 which is a flexible development approval tag one resort attached dwelling unit through a transfer of development rights as part of an opposed six resort attached dwelling units in the tourist zoning district in the old florida bay all for the district of beach by design for the property located at 612 bay esclenade they have requested a continuance to do some changes in the height of the structures and it needs to be advertised correctly does anybody have any questions on this one or do i have a motion to continue i make a motion to continue uh fld 2025-07017 slash dr d tdr 2025-07001 i have a second second motion made in second any discussion all in favor say aye aye all opposed motion carries this board has adopted a consent agenda format and the consent items are identified as such on the agenda consent agenda items are those items for which the planning and development department recommends approval and the applicant is in agreement with the any proposed conditions please note that written comments to the case that have been received to date do not result in any item being removed from the consent agenda items may be removed from the consent agenda today by a member of the board a member of the staff or any person in the audience for questions or objections i will read each item on the consent agenda and if any person wishes to remove this item from the consent agenda please so state or raise your hand and we will remove it from the consent agenda items removed from the consent agenda will be heard in the regular order of the meeting items that remain in the consent agenda will be approved with a single vote as to each type of hearing today's consent agenda items uh include uh there's only one um fld 2025-10025 flexible development approval of an existing 1 838 square foot commercial dock new boat lift accessory to 27 unit attached dwellings within the high density residential island estates neighborhood concert conservation overlay and preservation districts for the property located at 125 island way does anybody wish to have this item removed from the consent agenda seeing none there's any board member who wish to disclose any ex parte communication on any level two matters uh that we have on the consent agenda seeing none may have a motion for approval of the level two applications on the consent agenda can i ask one question lord it was is have we heard this before this property yes we have yes this is doesn't qualify for a minor amendment they're adding sorry they're adding a new lift so it's essentially the same extent as before so it's a new hearing since it's a real it's a more substantial request then we can do an administrative level so it was turned down before is that when it was approved before so it was approved it was approved but they're adding a lift so they're not not changing the size or structure i was just trying to remember the history yes okay it was my question yes all right cdb is approved do i have a motion for this consent agenda item i move to approve case number fld 205-10025 on today's consent agenda based on evidence in the record including the application in the staff report and hereby adopt the findings of fact and conclusions of law stated in the staff reports with conditions of approval as listed do i have a second second motion made and second is there any further discussion there being none all in favor say aye aye all opposed motion carries that concludes our consent agenda items and we don't have any other items on our regular agenda is there anything in the director's report nothing formal to report just hope that everyone has an excellent holiday season gets to spend a little bit of time with family or friends and relax which i think we all need every once in a while so please treat yourself thank you and the same to you and to all the staff we appreciate everybody's efforts bringing everything to us each month for our consideration uh any board members wishing to be heard on any matters yeah could you slow it down just a little bit i'm no i can't even i'm great and i'm from new york i speak fast sorry that doesn't happen yes i can slim it down i'll try to sometime all right there's no other board members to be heard then today's meeting is adjourned merry christmas