Welcome, everybody. I would like to call to order the planning and zoning meeting for the City of Plantation, day of December 10th, 2024. Time is 6 p.m. City Clerk, would you please call the roll? Ms. Gelfand? Here. Mr. Stahl? Here. Mr. Corman? Here. Mr. Freeman? Here. Mr. Goldstein? Here. Ms. Peacock? Here. Mr. McIntosh? Here. Thank you. All right. Well, we do have a full dais, and so first order of business. I thought it was going to happen in January, but it's happening now, is the election of new chair and vice chair for this year. Do we have any nominations? I'd like to nominate Rob Coleman. I second it. All right. There is a nomination, a second. Please call the roll. Just do all the more nominations if there are any. Oh, yeah, that. Sorry. I didn't know where there was. Okay. I don't even have others. I got all excited. Seeing none. Now it's awkward. Seeing none. Please call the roll. I'm sorry. Who was nominated? Rob. Myself. Okay. Sorry. All right. And Mr. Stahl made the nomination? Yeah. All right. Seconded by Ms. Gelfand. Okay. And seconded. All right. Okay. Ms. Gelfand? Mr. Stahl? Yes. Mr. Corman? Yes. Mr. Freeman? Yes. Mr. Goldstein? Yes. Ms. Peacock? Yes. Mr. McIntosh? Yes. Thank you. All right. And under election of vice chair, I'd like to nominate Max Goldstein? Second. Second. All right. That was a tie. Seconded by Matt. Please call the roll. No other nominations? Gosh darn it. Is there any other nominations? Seeing none. Please call the roll. Okay. Ms. Gelfand? Mr. Stahl? Yes. Mr. Corman? Yes. Mr. Freeman? Yes. Mr. Goldstein? Yes. Ms. Peacock? Yes. Mr. McIntosh? Yes. Thank you. All right. That business being done. Next item up is the approval of meeting minutes for September 17th, 2024. Any amendments or adjustments to those minutes? Anyone? I'll move approval. Second. Approval in a second. Please call the roll. Ms. Gelfand? Yes. Mr. Stahl? Yes. Mr. Corman? Yes. Mr. Freeman? Yes. Mr. Goldstein? Yes. Ms. Peacock? Yes. Mr. McIntosh? Yes. Thank you. November, the meeting minutes for November 19th, 2024, I do have one amendment to them, which I have discussed with staff already. It has to do with page 23 of the agenda packet. There is a vote with my name under the motion that nobody remembers actually making. And so I think it was an amendment in error. So I would make a motion to approve subject to verifying that item on page 23 of the agenda packet. Anybody else? Is there? And a second. So please call the roll. Thank you. Ms. Gelfand? Mr. Stahl? Yes. Mr. Corman? Yes. Mr. Freeman? Yes. Mr. Goldstein? Yes. Ms. Peacock? Yes. Mr. McIntosh? Yes. Thank you. All right. We're going to take things ever so slightly out of order because we have a classy judicial item, PM24-0109, a consideration of a request to approve a practical difficulty waiver for the Stolberg residence. Properties located 7300 Northwest 6th Court and zoned RS-3F, single family residential. City Attorney, do you have to read and swear in? I do. Thank you, sir. I will swear in the witnesses before speaking, please state your name and whether you have been administered the oath. Any speaker may be cross-examined. Any speaker may present any information and testimony that they have. Your testimony may not be considered if you are not sworn in. The contents of the agenda backup are made part of the record. We will first have a presentation by the city. Then the applicant will speak. We don't have any interested parties in this particular matter. So at the conclusion of the testimony, the board may have questions of the applicant in the city. And then the decision will be made here today and rendered in writing and development order. With that being said, if you have an interest in this particular matter and plan on speaking on PP 24-0-0-1-1 consideration of request... Oh, I'm sorry. PP 24-0-1-0-9 consideration of request to approve a practical difficulty waiver for the Stolberg residence. The property is located at 7300 Northwest 6th Court and zoned RS-3F, single family residential. Please stand and raise your... Southwest? No, it's Northwest. You swore from the testimony that there will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. You may be seated. Thank you. Thank you. Staff? Thank you. Good evening, planning and zoning board members, chair, vice chair, assistant city attorney, assistant city clerk. Tonight, as stated, I will be presenting a project for the Stolberg residents. My name is Shamika Butts. I'm a planner one with the planning and zoning department. Okay. So as stated, the project number is PM 24-0-1-0-9. I have provided a location map. The general location of the property is seen on the map. The property is located at 7300 Southwest 6th Court. The owners are Kenneth and Rachel Stolberg. The approximate size of the property is 19,197 square feet. It is zoned RS-3F, single family residential. The use is single family residence. The subject site is developed with a one-story, approximately 2,800 square feet, single family residence with a garage and a swimming pool. I've included the zoning map to show subject property. The area is characterized by single family residence on the north, south, east, and west. The aerial map depicts a public notification boundary in the purple outline. Public notices were sent to the properties within the 300 square foot radius. I have 40 notices that were sent out regarding this property. Here is a picture of the site plan that shows the proposed pergola. It is a 16 by 34, 544 square foot, open trellis wood pergola. The property owner is requesting to construct it five feet from the rear property line. Based on this site plan, it meets the side yard setback, and the proposed height of the pergola is 10 feet. Here are some depictions of the elevations on the front and side, showing that height of 10 feet. The applicant is requesting a practical difficulty waiver from Section 27310D, and that requires that all single family residents and those zoning districts, with the exception of RS-1EP, maintain a minimum 10 foot setback in the rear for a pergola. The applicant is requesting a decrease from 10 feet to 5 feet. Here I have shown some site photos of the rear yard, and also an overview of the property to give you a better look at what they are proposing. At this time, under pertinent information, staff has not received any written or verbal objection to the proposed application. There are some special conditions and unique circumstances. As you can tell from this photo, the house orientation, driveway, and pool are angled in not a typical fashion for the neighborhood or the city. This is not a typical corner lot configuration, and it does result in a large side yard with very little usable interior yard. The applicant has provided responses to the criteria found in Section 2752G2, and we believe that the applicant has met three of the criteria out of five. In conclusion, staff recommends approval of the requested practical difficulty waiver. And in the event, the Planning and Zoning Board finds that the applicant has proven entitlement to the practical difficulty waiver and recommends approval of the request, as staff recommends the approval be subject to conditions included in Section VB of the staff reports. I have concluded my presentation, but if you have questions, the applicant and homeowner is here. Ms. Stolbert, Mrs. Stolbert. Would the applicant like to say anything before we open up questions? Okay. Do we have any questions from the dais? Max? I have a quick question for staff, and this might be better suited for the landscaping staff. Okay. I want to know if this tree protection plan is something that we require of everybody that makes an application like this, or if this is a new thing, because I don't remember seeing this for any of the fencing proposals that we've had or any other similar type of application. Okay. That is better suited for the landscape. Good evening. For the record, Inderley Brown, Environmental Landscape Supervisor. So the tree protection plan is in correlation with the tree protection inspection. So that plan shows staff where the trees will be quarantined during any improvement. So we just want the trees to be barricaded away from the development and not affected. So in this regard, the permit that's on hold currently will have to have that plan to ensure that the pergola is not adversely affecting those trees. So this is standard practice? Correct. That's why you haven't seen it before, because it's a new component to our discipline. Okay. And one last question is, how much does this cost? Like, what is the added cost of making this plan on the applicant? Thank you. For a single-family residence, we allow them to draft their plan, meaning mark it up with that component for the bill and submit it. Okay. Commercial properties have to have it signed and sealed. So it's not like they need to hire like a... No. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Any comments from the audience? Great. I have nothing else. Public comments are closed. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve, subject to the staff comments found in Section 5B. Is there a second? Second. All right. Matt beat you to it. Mr. McIntosh for the second. We have a motion and a second. Please call the roll. Okay. Ms. Gelfand? Mr. Stahl? Yes. Mr. Korman? Yes. Mr. Freeman? Yes. Mr. Goldstein? Yes. Ms. Peacock? Yes. Mr. McIntosh? Yes. Thank you. All right. Congratulations. You're free to leave. All right. And I've got to go back to this. No, that didn't work out. Next item in the agenda, it's public hearing PP24-0011, consideration of a request for assignment of LAC units, waivers, site plan, elevation, and landscape plan approval for 849 South State Road 7. The property is located 849 South State Road 7 in Zone B-AC, Gateway Artisan Commerce. Staff, if you will. Tonight, planning and zoning board members, assistant city clerk, assistant city attorney, members of the public, for the record, Thelene Rainford, planner with the City of Plantation's Planning and Zoning Department, presenting tonight, item PP24-0011, 849 South State Road 7. The applicant has three requests tonight, the first being an assignment of 18 LAC units, the second is site plan, elevation, and landscape plan approval to construct a three-story multifamily building, and the third is waivers from Chapter 27 of the City Code, one being a zoning waiver and three landscape waivers. The City Location Map shows the CRA outlined in blue. This property is located within the CRA. It is south of Broward Boulevard and north of Peters Road and sits at least 100 feet west of State Road 7 along Southwest 9th Street. The zoning map shows that the property is zoned B-A-C, which is Gateway Artisan Commerce. It is currently vacant, and the land use is local activity center. The size of the property is approximately 31,741 square feet. The address, again, is 849 South State Road 7, and the adjacent zoning districts that we have to the north, we have RS-2B and BHC, which is Gateway Hybrid Commercial. To the east and to the south, we have the Gateway Artisan Commerce, which is the same as the subject property. And to the west, we have RS-4K, which is single-family residential. The area map shows the subject area. It's hatched in blue, and it also shows a public notification boundary. So any property that will be utilizing an assignment of LAC units, there is a notification process. It's a 500-foot boundary, and 79 notices were sent out for this request for allocation of LAC units. The area map also shows that the area is characterized by single-family residences to the north. There's also an altar repair and maintenance facility, which is the altar zone. To the east, we have the used altar establishment, which is the Miami altar world. To the south, we have self-storage facility, which is a public storage, also a medical facility, which is the MD, now medical center. And to the west, we have single-family residences. So the first request is an assignment of LAC units. The LAC development activity map shows that at least five properties have received an assignment of LAC units within the past several years. We have the pixel project, we also have the strata townhomes, the Windsor apartments, the recently constructed plantation, Palmser Plantation, which is a senior living facility. And the last item that the Planning and Zoning Board considered was the Arkham Apartments, which was a three-story, eight-unit apartment building. So a review of the application utilizing LAC residential units shall include the consideration of the criteria noted in Section 19.71B of the Land Development Code. Now, the applicant did respond to the criteria, and staff did evaluate those responses. And in summary, I would just like to say that staff finds that the proposed development is consistent with the goals, objectives, and policies. I'll just read a few of them for you. Objective 1.7, where it provides a variety of residential densities and housing types. Objective 1.71, where it secures the existing neighborhood by maintaining no through traffic. And Objective 1.7.5, which continues the philosophy of locating higher-density residential close to commercial activity centers, then transitioning to lower-density residential. In continuing, staff also finds that the development is consistent with the objectives and policies of Objective 1.17, where within the local activity center, it encourages compact development, which includes a mixture of community-serving uses, which includes commercial, office, employment, civic, and institutional, recreational, open space, and residential. And also Objective 1.17.2, where it supports the location of uses in a manner oriented around a five-minute or a quarter-mile walk. If you're not familiar with the area just north of that property along State Road 7, there is a shopping center, which is within a five-minute walk. The location of the subject site is less desirable for retail or commercial use. It is set back, and it does not have visibility from State Road 7, and it will be difficult to develop as a viable commercial use. And the site plan does offer an effective and efficient arrangement of the site. The building is proposed on the east half of the property, closer to commercial site on the north and east, to provide a greater buffer from the single-family residences. The second request is for a site plan, elevation, and landscape plan. The site plan is narrow and relatively small. It's approximately 460 feet in length and 66 feet in width. The site plan shows that the proposed three-story multifamily building will be constructed on the eastern half of the site. It will be oriented to the south, and there is a surface parking to the west, which is parallel in front of the access road. There are 32 parking spaces that are shown on this plan, but some of those parking spaces dedicated to EV-capable parking. There is an existing wall that runs along the west property line and partially along the north property line. The applicant is continuing with a wall along the remaining north property line, and will run also along the east property line. There is a five-foot-high metal picket fence with sections of a wall on the south property line. So here is the site plan overlaid on an aerial. I'm showing here the eight-foot-high wall in red. This is existing at this time. They propose the six-foot-high wall will continue along the north, as stated before, and wrap along the east. And it also shows that the building is approximately 241 feet east of the west property line. The architectural style of the building is contemporary and linear. It will have exterior finishes. The stucco design incorporates both white and gray and taupe, and it also has a brick veneer finish and a flat roofing system. The elevation on the north, we can see this faces the single-family residential, and there are balconies here. On the south elevation, which faces the self-storage and access road, we see a continuation of the brick veneer, and there are the stucco finishes. On the east and west, to your left, you'll see this is what will face the Alto establishment, and to the west, which is 241 feet away from the single-family to the west, we see a continuation of those design elements. The applicant did provide some renderings, and this is a perspective view of the building looking east, so we're looking at the west elevation here. This is a rendering on the north side, and finally, we have a rendering on the south, so this is your view of the building from the access road. The applicant did provide a materials board. We see the colors here of the stucco in grays and whites and taupes, and the brick veneer. The applicant did provide a landscape plan, which was reviewed by the staff in the environmental landscape division. It shows the proposed plantings and the hedge material and trees, and the comments have been provided from the landscape department in the staff report. The 18-unit apartment building does have two floor plans. It has both a unit one floor plan, which is the larger of the two. It will be 975 square feet in size, and there will be six of those. The interior units are slightly smaller at 961 square feet. It also has two bedrooms and two bathrooms. And here we have both the ground floor plan and the second and third floor plan, which is similar throughout. In blue, we have the corner units or the end units at 975 square feet, and the interior units at 961 square feet. So the site circulation and connectivity plan shows that the entrance is off of State Road 7, so you access this site from State Road 7 heading west along the access road. There are two means, entrances and exits to the site, and the drive aisle does not extend or goes through the neighborhood because of that 8-foot-high existing wall. Parking for the multi-family building is 2.25 per unit. The site plan, based on the number of units, required to have 41 spaces. Because the property is located in the SPI-2 overlay district, there is a parking reduction of 15%. When this is applied, it brings the parking down to 34 spaces. The number of the site plan is providing 32. The applicant is requesting to utilize a transit accessibility reduction strategy of 5%, and this would further reduce the parking to 32 spaces. If this is granted, then the required parking and the provided parking will be the same, and it will be compliant for parking. So the third request is for zoning and landscape waivers. There are three landscape waivers and one zoning waiver. The zoning waiver is from Section 27-296CC, which requires a 2-foot setback for walkways and multi-family lots. The applicant is requesting to reduce this to zero. This, you can see, will affect two areas along the south property line. The first of the three landscape waivers are for landscape pedestrian zones. Along the south, the LPZ required is 18 feet 6 inches. Along the west, that LPZ 18 feet is required. The reduction is 18 feet on the south, and to the west, 12 feet 1 inch. The second landscape waivers for the perimeter buffer yard. The requirement is a 5-foot south buffer yard, and a 10-foot buffer yard on the north and the west. The reduction is to have the south buffer yard to 4 feet, and to reduce the north and western buffer yard to 5 feet. And the third and final landscape waiver is for the terminal islands, which are required to be at 7 feet. The southern parking lot terminal island, there's a request to reduce us to 3 feet and 4 inches, and this is due to the fire truck turning radii. Some pertinent information here. A community meeting was held by the applicant on September 25th at the Jim Ward Community Center. A signing sheet was provided. Only 10 persons signed, but the applicant didn't indicate that there were more than 10 people who attended the meeting. A summary of that meeting was provided in your backup. The applicant also held a subsequent meeting on December 4th, and he will be able to provide you with information on that. The citizens' comments, PZ staff, which is the Planning, Zoning, and Economic Development Department, did receive some objections during the last, excuse me, DRC meeting on October 22nd, and staff also received an email which has been provided to you from a property owner objecting to the proposed development. The property is located within the CRA, and the administrator did provide a comment stating that the project creatively redevelops and revitalizes a narrow, formerly dilapidated property with limited redevelopment potential that will now provide market and workforce housing options within a growing gateway district. The applicant has committed to providing 20% or four of those units to be designated as workforce housing. At this time, there aren't any violations issued for the property. So staff analyzes this project and has stated that it is compatible with the surrounding development pattern and zoning designation. It meets and complies with the comprehensive plan. It is consistent with the zoning code. It meets the utilization of LAC residential units, Section 19-71B. It meets the notice for zoning measures in Section 27-41. It meets the site development plan sufficiency, Section 27-50. And it meets the practical difficulty waiver, Section 27-52G2. In conclusion, based on the findings and conclusions outlined in the staff report, staff recommends approval subject to the conditions noted in Section VB of the staff report. And the applicant, Rod Feiner, is here for questions along with the architectural record and staff. Thank you. Would the applicant like to make a presentation? Name an address for the record? Of course, sir. My name is Rod Feiner. I'm an attorney with Cochor & Feiner, 1404 South Andrews Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, 33316. And now that I've got the advertising out of the way, with me also here is Terry Runyon. He is the project architect with DTI. Staff has given you a very comprehensive presentation of this project. So instead of going through my presentation and doing the same thing, I am going to just hit a couple of highlights for you as we go through. One of the things I wanted to point out is that, what staff did say, is that four of these units are going to be designated as workforce, we call it affordable, but really they're workforce housing. That meets the Plantation's Living Heroes budget and program, which are designed, for those of you not familiar with workforce housing, it takes 120% of the median income in Broward County, and the rent is restricted for that time period. Those will be restricted for 30 years, those rent restrictions are. That's part of the covenant that we will sign with the city. It doesn't mean the same tenant will be there. Obviously, as they get more money, they could still stay in the apartment complex in that unit, but we would designate another unit in there with that. And that is designed primarily for the workforce housing as police, firefighters, teachers, especially the beginning years, when they're just five years into their job. And additionally, we've talked with Plantation Palms, which is the ALF that's right near us. We've told them that when an apartment becomes available, if they want, we'll let them know. So maybe some of their nursing staff could be located right by our facility as well, so we can accommodate and create that dynamic walking environment along State Road 7 in our neighborhood. There is also, what staff didn't realize, for part of the parking reduction is there's a public bus stop right on the other side of the used car facility, so it's easily walking to public transportation from our area. We also have created a storage room for bicycles. I think there can be up to seven bicycles in that storage room, which is one of the requirements that they ask to do as well, so people could do that. I'm sorry, can I interject for just one second? Just to verify, four affordable workforce units, correct? Correct. Okay, I'm just checking because in your responses, page 59, it said three. I want to verify that it is four. It's 20%. It's four. It's lawyer math. It was my error. Copy that. So you can see the site location. Staff did a great job explaining where, how we get ingress and egress, ingress and egress occurs to State Road 7, not through the residential development at all. That's through a dedicated access easement, so we go through that. I will say that we tried to buy the used car facility that's to our east, and we just couldn't do it. It just did not work out that way. But you have the site plan before you on that. I think staff did a very good job explaining the site plan with everything that was going on. I will say, with regard to the landscaping, you've heard staff talk about our community meeting. We actually had two. We sent them out to a thousand-foot radius, more than the staff did for this meeting. We wanted to be more comprehensive. Staff summarized adequately the people that showed up. The three people showed up to the second meeting. They were the same people that showed up to the first meeting, and then the Plantation Palms people showed up to the second meeting. They were not there at the first. I've been authorized to represent that Plantation Palms has no objection to this. Regardless of that, what the residents complained of or had expressed concerns of was the height of the building, it being three stories and balconies being on the north side. They were worried that people that went on to those balconies might destroy or have issues with some of their privacy. I know one person is here. She'll probably be able to speak more about that. We heard those complaints. We were cognizant of those complaints, so we tried to address those complaints as best we could. The balconies are only about 300 square foot, so there's not going to be real parties on them. It's more of an amenity for the people living in those units, that would be, that they can be there. Go out, like, during the last week when we had actually cool weather for the first time in a while. You go out there and enjoy a dinner or sit out there at the end of the day, and you can enjoy the fresh weather. But what we did agree to do, and we told them this, is we agreed to install more mature landscaping than is required by code alone in northern and western property boundaries. So that would be, which button do I push to highlight? Is it the top one? I don't want to turn it off. Okay, so along this boundary and that boundary is, well, we'll restore more mature trees, we'll restore more mature landscaping, so this way they'll be able to grow a little bit faster. Well, and they'll be taller time of planting. They'll provide more of a buffer that way. Okay, with regard to the waivers, staff did an excellent job summarizing the waivers. We do have one issue with the waiver that was said, and I'll explain that right now. Well, I guess I'll do it here. So code is split on the waivers. It requires a 10-foot landscape buffer here, which is the area adjacent to the commercial property, and then that shrinks to 5 feet when you are adjacent to residential. Whoa, my fingers are too large. So you can see we have the 10-foot landscape buffer here, which is really the area of the commercial property. It then shrinks to 5 feet on this area and this area because those are residential. We meet those. So staff said we were required to have 10 feet in that area. We think it's only 5, but we do meet those. It's in this area where it was 4 feet that we're requesting, and again, that's adjacent to the self-storage facility and the access road. So we couldn't even make it larger if we wanted to, especially to accommodate fire rescues going through the site. And staff already explained the island issue of what went on there. So what we did do is when we tried to design this, because going back to the aerial, we had not – oh, let me go this way because I think this does a better job on it. There we go. So what we tried to do is, if you can see, we moved the building all the way to the east to the greatest extent we could. We did that on purpose, A, to encourage walking to State Road 7, so to connect the mass transit or do whatever you're going to do. Or if you were riding your bike, you didn't have as long to go on that. But also, this is commercial property right here. And so what we tried to do is we tried to minimize – this is residential property. We tried to minimize the impact to the residential property to the greatest extent that we could by doing that. I will say I noticed that this is the only property that is basically directly adjacent to where the building is going to be. We tried to increase landscaping and do whatever we could in that area to the greatest extent possible. I do notice that property is also well buffered with trees, but that's on their property. But we looked into that when we were doing everything we could to try and minimize all impacts. And other than that, we meet the requirement of code on everything else that we're here. We did, at the request of staff, added some beginnings of sidewalk on the southern portion of our property, which also requires some of the landscape pedestrian waiver. We did that so eventually when this property gets redeveloped, which we hope will occur, there'll be a full pedestrian, there'll be a pedestrian walkway through that property as well with the sidewalk connecting that property. So we've already installed the landscaping and the sidewalk on our property that can eventually connect there. So we're also doing that. And that also impacted some of the waivers and everything else because that's concrete. And where it could be located, which is the zero-foot waiver because it's right next to the access drive. It goes anywhere else in that it wouldn't connect adequately to the property that's to the further east. With that, my landscape architect is here. My architect is here. He's also familiar with the landscaping. We're happy to answer any questions you may have. I'll just start off with two small questions. What's the total square footage of the building-ish? Terry, do you know? Come up, give your name. Only because in the synopsis it says 7,590 feet, and I think it's missing a one. So, like, I'm assuming it's roughly 17,000 square feet. I would suggest yes. Okay, cool. That would make sense considering the size of the units, yes. Okay. So I'm guessing that's going to be a typo. And, again, another typo, what is the actual owner's name? 100 Mazel Tov Estates. TOV or TOF? TOV. Oh, shame. Sorry. That was it. At least I didn't do it this time. All right. Yeah. Just that is all I have. Okay. Any other questions from the day? Thank you. Vicki. Okay. So today I went on State Road 7 to try and find it. Couldn't figure out where it was. I was in several storage units and places like that. And then I said I give up. I was running out of gas. And I said that's it. How would – I see you have the address of State Road 7, but it's going to be on Southwest 9th. Well, Southwest 9th, interestingly enough, because we went through this with staff, interestingly enough, Southwest 9th is not a dedicated public street. It's called Southwest 9th. Can you make it a dedicated? We cannot because we have an access easement over that, a perpetual access easement, but it's not our property to dedicate. So we can't do that. So in other words, someone's going to say they live right on State Road 7 and the post office is going to have a problem with that? Well, yeah, the post office is going to know it. Well, we can do – I mean, this was the address designated by the post office. We can try and go to the post office and get them to change the address if we need to. Okay. And is it – the apartments are going to be called Mazel Tov Estates? That's the owner's name. I don't know what they're going to be called. They may be called Mazel Tov Estates. I don't know. I haven't asked – You've got much of an estate. I haven't asked the owner, to be honest. That's just the owner's name. And so when we were coming up with a name for the project, that's just what we called it. Good luck. Laundry facilities? Yes, ma'am. In each apartment? Yes. Yes. And let me add, the entire building is fire spring court. Okay. And you said there's two entrances, one from State Road 7. Where's the other entrance? Just one entrance from State Road 7. There are two entrances into the parking lot. From where? So you have – let me go back to the site plan. Well, that will work. You have – ingress and egress occurs here. One lane in, one lane out. Okay. You come in. You can enter the parking lot here, or you can enter the parking lot here. So it's basically on the Southwest 9th Street. Yes. And – I'm looking – accessible parking. I saw you had two spots. Yes, ma'am. And you're going to have a place there for bicycles. Yes, ma'am. Those are in – so code requires where we have the bicycles. They have to be in a locked room is where they have to be, and the residents will have the keys to that, of course. Okay. But, yes. And you're going to have a manager on site, or it's just going to be – There will be a manager available. I don't believe there's plans for a permanent manager who has a unit on site. And where is the trash – obviously, they're not going to be a blue bag community. No, that's – that is the trash receptacle right there. It's a dumpster. It is fully enclosed as required by code. And we've gone through solid waste, and they've approved the location and everything else. Okay. So the people – the one person that you said had – that was basically the closest to the property. How close is that dumpster to their property? So the dumpster would be about here. Okay. And so it's this property and this property. Okay. And you can see the homes are relatively set back from that. Go ahead. It's five feet from the property line. Five feet from the lady or gentleman's property line? From the property line. From our property line. From your property line. And the wall is going to be six feet tall, you said? So there's an existing wall here. Whoops. Sorry. Let me go back. And why couldn't I get there today? I don't know, ma'am. Obviously. I already had to jump a fence. Sorry, you've got to come up, give your name, and give your name for the record because otherwise the minutes of the meeting we run into problems and they have to correct it next time. Terry Runyon with DTI Architects. Are you a licensed professional architect? Just so the record's clear. I am a licensed professional. Okay. Now go ahead. Okay. So if you were in the self-storage area – Would you step up to the microphone so we can hear you? If you were in the self-storage area, there is land to the north where it's just like a gravel roadway. Oh, okay. And it's just open land. That is literally the site that we're talking about. Okay. You could have maybe confused this as being part of the storage facility because there's no set demarcation except the gravel land. And to answer your question is the 8-foot wall goes to here, and then this becomes a 6-foot wall here. So there will be an 8-foot wall between the units and the people in the residence. Yes, 8-foot wall between our property and the residential property. And you'll be putting up tall, mature trees that will be a buffer. So, yes, there will be more mature trees at times. There is – I want to be completely fair and honest in everything else with you. So – I hate when people say that because it seems like I wasn't the first time when I said that. But anyway, there are FPL transmission lines here, so we can't put live oaks or anything else that are going to grow to be 30 feet tall there because it interferes with the transmission lines. We are putting FPL-compatible trees in that area. They get up to, I think, about 20 feet – 20, 25 feet tall is what their maximum height will be. So it will – the balcony may be – the third-floor balcony may be a little bit taller than those trees as they are, but they have to be because of the FPL power line in that area. And I have one more question. Do you have any idea of what they'll be charging for rent? So I do not know what the market rate number is. The four workforce units, that rent is set by Broward County. Right. But so you don't know the others. It changes yearly based upon what the median income is of the county, and they basically say, here's the median, here's what it is for a one-bedroom, here's what it is for a two-bedroom, et cetera. I think a two-bedroom right now is – you know what? I don't remember, so I don't want to quote it. Don't quote it, you don't know. And how long do you think it would take to – once this is approved and you've gone through all the hoops and started construction, how long do you think it would take? So we just had that discussion about three or four weeks ago with our client because they were asking the same thing, so they are hot to trot on this. Most likely we go before city commission in February because it's a six-week lead time. It takes about two to three months from that point to draft construction drawings. The client may authorize the beginning of construction drawings earlier than that. While we're finishing up the plat, we can be going through permitting. So the hope is by third quarter 2025, we're going to start construction. Start to finish how long? I don't – that I don't know. Me neither. Let's just say a year. I would think it shouldn't be more than a year with a building like this. Thank you very much. Sorry, Max? So I have a quick question for the architect. I've noticed that this is a single-loaded corridor style of building, which means that you have the hallway with both of the staircases on each side, and then all the units have access to it. But this is a three-story building, and I believe you have eight or fewer units on each floor. Yes. So you would meet Florida building code requirements to have one, like, single-stair buildings, and you could split it up into two buildings. And I'm just asking why you chose to do it this way and not the single-stair way, because single-stair, you'd be able to fit more bedrooms in there. And I think it may be on the maximum path of travel for three stories, trying to get all the way down for – and the number of people. I'm not 100 percent positive on that actual number, but that – you know, always having two means of egress is normally better, fire and safety. Yeah, I was just curious, because I came into this meeting thinking that it was a parking issue, that if you had made some of those two-bedroom units three bedrooms, you'd need more parking spaces, and it wouldn't fit in the lot anymore. There is that, and also I would say that I don't know how putting that – the two buildings with the spread that were code required between the two buildings. Then we move further west. The building moves further west by that. That could increase the parking lot. The number of spaces in the parking lot also means we're intruding into more residential homes. Okay. And then I have one quick question for staff. The zoning district of those single-family homes that are abutting the property, what's the actual height of those single-family – of that single-family zoning district? Because I believe it's 35 feet, three stories. Let me just check my code book just to be sure. Just give me a moment, please. Okay. I know that three stories is allowed on our zoning, by the way. Yeah, I know. I knew you knew, but I just thought I'd set the record. Well, we're ready to go, Matt. Any other questions for you? Nope. Oh, it's related to that three-story. Well, we'll come back then. Any other questions, Matt? You look like you just pushed – smile at me. I don't even know how this thing works. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to express my appreciation for the mentioning the bike storage and the pedestrian access. More for a comment for future reference. It would be good if the maps had, like, more of an indicator of where the bus stops are. If it's within distance, just as a comment there. Got it. Well, we have a couple of other projects, not this developer, but I do, and working on the way through the city. I'm not sure we include that in the future. Yes. Just to verify, the little blue dot – I see it. – is on there. Yeah. Okay. I see exactly where it is, but not everyone has as good eyesight, so. Or as righteous of a mustache, so let's continue with that one. What looks like we might have an answer. Maximum height is 35 feet. So all those single-family homes could be the exact same height as this apartment building. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions from the desk? Do we have any comments from the chamber? Anyone want to speak to this issue? Any comments online? Just to verify, did anybody come here to make a comment about this property? No? All right. Oh, please come forward then. If you would do me a favor, if you could just come up and say that for the record, just so that we know. Name and address. We did get a copy of the e-mail, I believe, that you sent. Denise Simpson. And if you could just, for the record, give your address. 4042 Southwest 8th Street, Plantation, Florida, 33317. Perfect. And we did receive a copy of your e-mail. Is there anything you would like to add to that? One thing I left out is that my property floods during heavy storms, during rainstorms, so I don't know how this project will affect my property when it rains in terms of the drainage. Just for the record, do you know which one of those homes is yours? Is it the one that's directly behind the building? Is it the one with the white roof? No, not the white roof. Brown roof? I think the brown roof. Okay. I've looked. It's that one. Okay. Since it was brought up, what is your drainage plan for the property in particular along the north edge? Excuse me. Yes, we are containing, as required by state law and code, we are retaining our own surface water. We're not discharging surface water out. There will be cisterns, underground cisterns, that will handle it, and then that will connect to the city water and sewer and discharge through that way in the appropriate legal manner. And let me just add one thing since I got a microphone. I forgot to include my proposal. Besides the two community outreach meetings, at the request of the CRA, we went to both the State Road 7 gateway meeting and received a recommendation of approval from that board, and we also went to the city's affordable housing committee at the request of staff and received a recommendation from that committee as well. Okay. In that neighborhood country club estates, we have septic tanks, and I just think in 2024 that's unacceptable. I do not disagree with you. I'm pretty sure this property will not be on septic. I'm just going to cut into the main sewer lines, so there will be no impacts in that regard. The issue of septic within your community, though, is probably an issue for a city council and not for here, unless it specifically relates to this project. Okay. But I 100% agree with you. That's about it. Perfect. Okay. You're welcome to sit. Thank you so much. Thank you. One second. Max. I have one quick question for staff or the applicant, anybody who knows. Doesn't state law require that if you have a viable sewer connection within 1,000 feet of your property, you must connect to it within a certain time frame? I can't answer that, but I can tell you that this is connecting to sewer. We are not on septic. I know that. No, I know. But I'm thinking that maybe by bringing a sewer connection further into or closer to this residential area, that maybe some of those properties on septic might be required to connect to that sewer line. I'd assume they could connect to anything that's along State Road 7 at this point. Good evening. For the record, Dan Homes, Planning, Zoning, Economic Development Director. I don't know the exact answer to that. That's a question probably more appropriate for the utilities director. You know, so we can, I can get some answers for you to see what's going on with the neighborhood and why some of those homes remain on septic. But as pertains to this project, we do know that it will not be on, it can't be on septic tank. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? No? All right. Public comments are closed. Do I have a motion? Motion to approve subject to staff comments. Second. We have a motion and a second. Please call the roll. Ms. Gelfand? Yes. Mr. Stahl? Yes. Mr. Corman? Yes. Mr. Freeman? Yes. Mr. Goldstein? Yes. Ms. Peacock? Yes. Mr. McIntosh? Yes. And just so we're thorough, that was for the LAC units because there's multiple requests, so we should just do them separately. There are multiple requests, but they're all under PP24-0001. I just did. I just did. I just did. I just did. So was that for everything, the LAC units, the site plan, and the waivers? Yes. Do I need to remake the motion? No, this is just a recommendation. I just want to make sure that that's what you were doing before. Yes, it was for the entire item. In that case, then, I will say congratulations. Thank you very much. Any other? Thank you. Any other business? No. Just to verify with the record, the meeting in January is on what day? The 14th? Okay. Cool. Then we got that. In that case, then, at 6.54, the meeting is adjourned.