Good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming. The May 13th, 2026 meeting of the Local Planning Agency of the City of Dunedin will now come to order. The Local Planning Agency is an advisory board of citizens appointed by the City Commission. This board is comprised of volunteers who represent the thoughts and concerns of the community. The purpose of tonight's meeting is to make recommendations to the City Commission regarding each item on the agenda. Except for Item 1B, tonight's format will be as follows. I will introduce each item on the agenda, after which the City Representative will present information about it. Thereafter, the members of the Local Planning Agency will have an opportunity to ask questions of the City Representative. Finally, anyone from the public may come forward. Those from the public wishing to provide comment will need to please approach the lectern, state your name and address, and then utilize the microphone at the speaker's lectern in order for their comments to be recorded. Individual public speakers will be limited to three minutes of speaking time, and we kindly request that speakers are respectful of the clock countdown. Citizens speaking on an agenda item or during the citizens' comments shall not engage in loud, boisterous, or disruptive speech or conduct. Any speaker that has continued inappropriate or irrelevant comments will be requested to relinquish the podium by the Chair. Item 1A. The first item of our agenda tonight is to approve the April 8, 2026 LPA meetings. Are there any corrections, additions, or deletions to the minutes? Okay. Hearing none, do I hear a motion to accept the minutes as submitted? Second. So moved. Okay. Deborah Kynes moved. Paul Stanek seconded. And all those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. Next up. Now, bear with me. This is that next section that's redundant, but we're working on streamlining it. While the local planning agency is not a quasi-judicial board and therefore has no final decision-making power, our procedures for quasi-judicial items are structured in a quasi-judicial manner for the benefit of those who come before it. The commission will be the ultimate quasi-judicial decision-making authority. The next item on our agenda tonight, which is quasi-judicial in nature, is item 1B, and the format will be as follows. I will introduce the item, after which the city representative will present information about it. Thereafter, the members of the local planning agency will have an opportunity to ask questions of the city representative. The applicant will present information about the item. Thereafter, the members of the local planning agency will have an opportunity to ask applicant questions. Finally, anyone from the public may come forward. Those from the public wishing to provide testimony will need to approach the lectern, state their name and address, and then utilize the microphone at the speaker's lectern in order for their comments to be recorded. Individual public speakers will be limited to three minutes of speaking time, and we will kindly request that speakers be respectful of the clock countdown. Finally, both the city representative and the applicant will be provided any final comments. Upon the conclusion of each public hearing, the local planning agency will consider the evidence before it and will vote on the agenda item. That voice vote is the rendition of the order of the board, and there will be no written decision issued by the board. Anyone in the audience who wishes to give testimony to these items on the agenda will need to be sworn in by the city clerk. The clerk will now swear in all persons wishing to speak or give testimony in tonight's quasi-judicial agenda item. Are you right here? I do. Thank you. Okay. Item 1B, Application ANLUPZO2026-001, 1991 Spanish Pines Drive, Voluntary Annexation, Land Use Plan Amendment and Zoning District Designation, Ordinance 2602, Voluntary Annexation of the Property into the City of Dunedin's, Ordinance 2603, Land Use Plan Amendments to Residential Low RL, and Ordinance 2604, Zoning District Designation to R60. Has anyone had any ex parte communications regarding this item? If so, please read it. No? Okay. Staff, George. Thank you. Thank you, Chair Benjamin, members of the planning agency. This is George Kinney on behalf of the Community Development Department, and it's nice to have one before you that doesn't have a room full of angry citizens. So I'm very happy to present this case for you. This is a voluntary annexation request. Let's see if our slideshow is coming up here. Do you guys see it on your laptops? Oh, it's coming. Okay. There we go. So just to orient you to the property, again, annexation, land use, plan amendment, and zoning amendment, 2026-0001. It's a voluntary annexation. Applicants are behind me. It's James R. Davis and Gene F. Davis. The street address is 1991 Spanish Pines Drive. It's approximately a 0.24-acre residential site, and it's currently occupied as a single-family residential unit. And you can see the location outlined in red in the slide to the north side of Spanish Pines Drive. This is just a look at the plat for this particular community. Spanish Pines consists of 47 residential lots. It was platted in September of 1975. The Davis property is lot 34, as you can see highlighted on the left-hand side of the screen. It is a single-family residence that was built in 1976. Mr. and Mrs. Davis purchased the property in August of 2001. And at the lower right-hand corner, you can see a Google Street View of the subject property. Mr. and Mrs. Davis are requesting voluntary annexation from their property from unincorporated Pinellas County into the city of Dunedin. You can see by this the map, the Dunedin planning area map to the right-hand side. This would be the second property within this particular subdivision to be annexed, although there may be more. This planning map is a static map that we've used over time. So we are requesting a GIS map to make sure that's accurate. But as you can see, the location of the subject property, again, is 1991 Spanish Pines Drive. And I believe the property 3 to the west is the property that used to be owned by the previous planning director, Gregory Rice. And that was annexed into the city in 2016. And it was annexed, as you can see in that black box, it was annexed with the land use of residential low and a zoning of R60, which is going to be the request for this particular property as well. This is located west of Belcher Road and south of Curlew Road. The Spanish Pines subdivision is situated within the Dunedin planning area and is contiguous with the city limits as an enclave. So voluntary annexation is both envisioned and authorized through our comprehensive plan, and that's that little inset on the left-hand side of the screen. I will mention that this is an Enclave A. So Florida is a little unique in that you don't have to have contiguity in certain circumstances. And obviously they do not have contiguity to a city boundary, but they don't need it in this particular case because it is an enclave that has been predetermined to be annexable pursuant to our interlocal agreement with Pinellas County. Just a really quick look at the land use plan amendment. The map you see on the left is the Pinellas County land use map. So the current land use for the property as it sits unincorporated is residential low. That is also the land use that will be placed on this property if it is annexed in the city of Dunedin. It will also be residential low, so there's no change there at all. And you can see a little bit on the right-hand side in the future land use element what that residential low provides. Its primary uses are obviously residential. From a zoning district designation, the property is currently zoned R1 in the county. Our equivalent zoning in the city of Dunedin is R60, so that is the proposal here to rezone the property to R60. R60 zoning permits single-family residential as a primary use. And you can see in that table in the lower right-hand side that this property will come in as a conforming property under that zoning category. It meets all of our dimensional requirement, including lot size, lot width, lot depth, number of stories, building height, setbacks, side setbacks, and rear setbacks. The staff recommendation is to approve the three following ordinances. It's Ordinance 2602, and that is the Ordinance for Voluntary Annexation of the Subject Property into the City of Dunedin. Ordinance 2603 is to designate the property as residential low on the city's future land use map following annexation. And Ordinance 2604 to designate the property as R60 single-family residential zoning district following annexation. And the only thing I would note is, as this board knows and as the commission knows, for a land use amendment, we do have to transmit it after first read to the county for their approval. We anticipate that to be a very simple administrative Tier 1 amendment. So with that, that's really all I have for this particular request. The applicants are here, and I'm happy to answer any questions from a staff perspective. Any questions for staff? Go ahead, Paul. George, knowing that they won't be getting water and sewer, will they be getting solid waste or trash and garbage and recycling as part of annexing into the city? That's correct. So that will be served by our Solid Waste Division, where the other properties around it currently are not. And really, that's probably the only benefit they get. But I do know that the Davises are also very active in the city on boards and committees. And really, one of the primary reasons for wanting to annex, and of course I'll defer to them, but I believe one of the primary reasons for annexation is to come into the city and remain active with city boards, committees, and the like. Well, that was actually my next question. So I'd actually love to hear from the applicants. So why do you guys want to annex into the city? Well, we can think about it. So we... You want to come up to the legislature, please? And can we get him sworn in? Yeah. Yeah. We'll need to swear you in real quick. The truth, the whole truth, the death of the country. We do. I'm James Davis, and this is my wife, Jean. Good evening. And yes, we've only been living in Dunedin since 1971, you know. And then we moved up there from downtown Dunedin just about 25 years ago now. So it's... And then it was Palm Harbor until they decided the mail service really needed to kind of change it to Dunedin. So we were happy about that, and we thought enough said we're good, and we were, you know. And then getting involved in committees and different things and having a boat in the marina for all this time, got away with that pretty good. And, you know, but then we have a condo, too, so we kind of had a legal in Dunedin, so we were all right. But, you know, long story short, you know, it was a nice opportunity to see us be able to take advantage of this, and it's worked out good. We are grateful to have the opportunity to be formally recognized as a city of Dunedin residence. And our family enjoys the city very much, and we're looking forward to spending the next 25 years here. Yes, and we're also entering our new phase of retirement, so we anticipate volunteering more in the city of Dunedin. And my blood bleeds orange. I'm a graduate of Dunedin High School in a class of 79, so... Homecoming queen. Wonderful. Well, we have a few volunteer opportunities in this city, so your timing's perfect. Any other questions for the applicant? I'm curious, how did you get the mail switch from Palm Harbor to Dunedin? That was a county-to-city maneuver. Mostly it was the post office, I think, that wanted that to happen. You know, so it all officially became Dunedin. Interestingly, you know, the garbage services have evolved through the years, and there's only like eight or ten different services that go through the neighborhood now. Probably really only three, but it just feels like that many. And then I noticed that our other cohort that used to live in, that Greg Rice's home was and is, I noticed that they were getting service still from the city of Dunedin, although the city of Dunedin actually kind of pulled out there and stopped servicing and gave us another company, which we liked real well. And we'd love it if the whole neighborhood actually would just take that on. I will say that we could be pretty good salesmen for you guys as far as property tax collection goes because posting the sign and, you know, all of the interest that has come about from our neighbors has been positive. And we said, you know, we'll let you know how it works out for us, but we think it's going to be good, and I'll let you know when I get the first property tax bill. You know, but hopefully, and I think that there's a lot of opportunity. We have 109 homes in the neighborhood, so it's a great closed circle that we don't get much traffic through, so we've really enjoyed living there, and we think we have many interested people. Just to add, and just to guess, and maybe Mr. Stanek knows better than I do, that switch from Tarpon to the Dunedin Taxing District probably occurred when we entered into the interlocal agreement because we recognized that as an area for annexation to the city of Dunedin. So it would have been Pinellas County with the city of Dunedin Taxing District. So that's likely when that happened, but maybe you know. Yeah, actually, I'm not sure on that one. That would have been, like I said, I think driven by the post office to make things more cohesive and consistent between because it's, well, as you know, there's Dunedin that's Dunedin, there's Dunedin that's not Dunedin, there's Dunedin that's Palm Harbor, and there's Palm Harbor that's Dunedin. So there's a mix throughout the area and what's actually within the city limits of the city itself. Now that I think about it, it was the school administrator. It was the school superintendent also who was involved in that because he, it was Dunedin, and then it changed to Palm Harbor, and then it changed back to Dunedin, but he wanted his kids to go to PHU. And so he, like, did something to change that zoning, to change it to Palm Harbor, and afterwards it got changed back. He only lasted a couple years anyways. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. We look forward to seeing you around and volunteering. Thank you. I see we have a member of the public who has shown up with anyone from the public. like to speak on this item tonight. If you are going to speak, you have to be sworn in and come to the lectern. Good afternoon. Do you swear in the testimony you are about to give and is proceeding in the truth? Of course, I do. Mark Ocean, 625 Wilkie Street. I always like to come to these meetings. Congratulations to this happy couple. Great to see you becoming Dunedin residents, and I'd like to hear the fact that there's other opportunities within your neighborhood for the other homes. Now, Spanish Pines, and I'm supposed to direct my communication here, is that, that's the neighborhood off of Curlew, right? Okay. All right. And fellow Dunedin High School alumni class of 78 here. So, wonderful. Glad to have you in Dunedin. Thank you. Thank you, Mark. Okay. With that, we will close public input. Any further information or any further questions by anybody on the commission? One more question? Wait. But, General, can we vote on all three of these at the same time, or do they need to be voted on individually? For the... Wait a minute. It could be wrong, but we... For each ordinance? Yeah. Okay. Okay. We'll stick with your procedure. We'll stick with your president. If your president is individually, we'll do it individually per ordinance. Okay? Just identify the ordinance number. That's all. Okay. Okay. So, I'm asking for a motion. Do we have a motion to recommend or oppose the voluntary annexation of 1991 Spanish Pines Drive? We volunteered that in. Second. You have a second? Okay. I'll share the world. Got it. Okay. Any discussion on this one before we vote? No? Okay. With that, all in favor of the voluntary annexation, say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. First motion moves. Second. Do we have a motion for the ordinance 2602 into the city land use plan? So, that's 2603? 2603. Oops. I'm right in here. I move that we approve ordinance 2603. Second. Okay. Okay. Any discussion? Okay. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. And lastly, do we have a motion on 2604 zoning district designation to R60? I move to approve ordinance 2604, the zoning district designation to single family residential R60. Second. Okay. Any discussion? Any questions? If not, all those in favor of moving forward with the approval of ordinance 2604 designation to R60, signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Motion passes unanimously. Good job. Good. All right. I believe that is it for our agenda tonight. Yeah. All right. Thank you. That is a hard agenda. Sylvia, they're not all that easy, believe me. Yeah. All right. Meeting adjourned. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.