Tampa City Council PM - 06/25/26

Hello, everybody. Welcome to our 501 public hearings at 509. Welcome to Tampa City Council. Clerk, can you please call the roll? Miranda. Here. Meniscalco. Here. Hertek. Young. Here. Vieira. Carlson. Here. Clendenin. Here. We have a physical quorum. Thank you so much. We'd like to clear the agenda. May 2601, that applicant is requesting a continuance to September 24th, 2026. We have a motion to open public hearings from Councilman Maniscalco, second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Can I get a motion to continue Item 3 to September 24th, 2026? We have a motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Mr. Chairman. Yes. Time and place, please. 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, 3rd floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602. Who did this for me? Oh, thank you. I love you. Thank you. Again, the date and time and the file number is? The file number is? T-A. T-A-C-P-A-2601 at 5.01 p.m., 3rd floor of City Hall. September 24th, 2026. We already did that part. Thank you. Next. Good evening, Council. Leo DeMar DeLaven, Development Coordination, Agenda Item Number 10, File Number AB2-2603. The applicant has requested to continue this item to the September 24th. I have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco, second from Councilman Miranda to continue. File Number AB2-2603 to September 24th, 2026 at 5.01 p.m., 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, 3rd floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. And that concludes our agenda clearing. Can I get a motion to accept the agenda? We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco, second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Item number one. Good afternoon. I should have a PowerPoint. I'm Michelle Boone, Housing and Community Development. CTTV, waiting for the PowerPoint. There we go. There we go. Thank you so much. Good afternoon. Again, Michelle Boone, Housing and Community Development. I'm here tonight to talk about our annual action plan. This is a public hearing. It's one of the first of two public hearings on our annual action plan. There we go. So today we're going to talk about the background, the purpose of the action plan, the funding resources that are available in the action plan, priority needs that will be served through the funding of projects in the action plan, allocations for projects, calendar and timeline for the process, and the citizen participation process as well. The annual action plan is a summary of our federal grant dollars, our CDBG, emergency solutions, housing opportunities for persons with AIDS, and our home investment partnership program. This is a part of our five-year consolidated plan, so this will be the fifth year of that five-year consolidated strategic plan. Again, CDBG funds projects that provide development, decent housing, living, public service projects, decent, suitable living environment, excuse me, economic opportunities for low to moderate our income at or below 80% AMI, our emergency solutions grant program provides funding for essential services for homeless or those that are at risk of homelessness. Our HOPWA program is a program that supports housing for opportunities for persons with AIDS. It provides funding for agencies for housing assistance and supportive services. We serve a three-county area. We previously served a four-county area, but HUD has allocated funds directly to the city of St. Petersburg, and they will allocate funds for Pinellas County, so we're now only responsible for Pasco, Hillsborough, and Hernando counties for our HOPWA funds. And our home investment partnership dollars fund a range of affordable housing and new construction, rehab for single-family and multi-family projects. Again, our priority needs that were determined in our consolidated plan, new construction, rehabilitation, multi-family, single-family housing, supportive housing operations through our HOPWA programs and our homeless support programs, public service assistance. We are maximized for our CDBG dollars at 15% allocated to public service agencies that provide services for child care, health care, job training, or workforce development. Education programs, elderly or special needs, and homeless services. Public facilities and infrastructure for buildings that support projects that support the public service for those same types of programs. And this is our allocation for this upcoming year for our federal funds. We did just note our SHIP funds, which are state-allocated funds, for our total grant budget of $11,445,497. So for our calendar timeline, we did release a request for proposals, a request for applications for all three federal dollars. Our ESG funds are provided to Tampa Hillsborough Homeless Initiative, and they allocate them from there. We are in the finalizing of the recommendations for the funding. So today, we are required to hold two public hearings. This is the first. We will open our 30-day public comment period today. It will run through June, July 25th of 2026. And then our action plan is submitted to HUD by August of 2026. So this invitation program, again, 30-day public comment period and two public hearings. And any information is available on the HCD website as well as in our office. We can accept comments through the telephone, email, or in person at the Hannah City Center. If there's any questions, I will help you answer to them. Any Q&A? No? Motion to close the public hearing? Oh, is there any by the public wish to speak to this item? Hearing none. We have a motion to close. Councilman, I'm Scott, I'm second. Councilman, Miranda, all those in favor. Say aye. Aye. Opposed. I have it. The second public hearing will be held at 5.01 p.m. on July 23rd, 2026. At 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, third floor, Tampa, Florida, 336-02. Thank you. Item number two. Emily Phelan, Planning Commission staff. Item number two is TACPA 2520. This one did come before you previously where I did give an extended presentation on April 23rd. I am more than happy to go through the entire presentation or an abbreviated one, whatever council's pleasure is. Abbreviated, please. Okay. So like I said, this is TACPA 2520. It's located at 11315 North 46th Street and Associated Parcels. This is publicly initiated. It's a regular scale amendment. It's approximately 62.8 acres. And the request is to go from light industrial, heavy industrial, public, semi-public to urban mixed use 60 and community mixed use 35. And just as a reminder, the general location, it's located here. It's in the University Planning District, the Terrace Park neighborhood, and the Tampa Green Tech Corridor. This is an aerial of the subject site, which is outlined in pink. And the previous plan amendment that you have heard before was TACPA 2519, which was the Mosey site itself. To the north is University of South Florida. To the west are some multifamily. To the south are like industrial uses in a park. And to the west are some commercial uses along Fowler that transition into residential uses moving further south. Just a refresher on this site. This is looking east on North 46th Street towards the subject site. This is the daycare located on the subject site. This is looking west on Fowler Avenue. This is looking west on North 50th Street at the adjacent residential uses. This is northeast at the intersection of East Fowler Avenue and North 50th Street. This is the adopted future land use map. Again, the subject site is outlined here. It's represented with the public, semi-public, the light industrial, and the heavy industrial designations. This is the proposed future land use map. The majority of the subject site is the urban mixed use 60 designation. And the community mixed use 35 is this southwest corner. Under the existing future land use, residential is not permitted in the light industrial or the heavy industrial designations. Under the public, semi-public designation, the maximum is not defined. Under the light industrial and heavy industrial designations, the subject site could be considered for just over 3.6 million square feet of non-residential uses. Under the proposed UMU-60 and CMU-35 designations, the subject site could be considered for just over 3,400 dwelling units or 8.2 million square feet of residential or non-residential uses. This amendment would remove any industrial uses potential on the site. This did go out to our reviewing agencies. The EPC made a comment that commercial and industrial uses may be incompatible with the proposed flu. The Planning Commission found it consistent with that it promotes a mixed use development pattern and the compact city form strategy. And with that, the Planning Commission recommends that the proposed amendment be found consistent with the goals, objectives, and policies of the Tampa comprehensive plan. That concludes my presentation. If you have any questions. Does the council have any questions? Hearing none. Does anybody in the public who wishes to speak? Applicant. Applicant, sorry. Okay. I do have a PowerPoint, if we could key it up. Otherwise, I can actually go really quick if it's the council's question. You can go through quick. Yeah. Quick is good. Quick is good. Yes. All right. I think we've all seen this presentation a lot of times. Just to remind you, public-private partnership. Star with your name, please. Oh, yeah. For the record, Matt Lewis, Stantec, representing Hillsborough County. John Waller, Facilities and Real Estate for Hillsborough County. Just to remind us, the public-private partnership between Hillsborough County and Alliant Partners to kind of transform the area near the University of South Florida around where Mosey is right now. I'm not going to go through this because Emily just went through this slide for you. Brief recap of the history of the area. Four generations ago, there was a great idea for this to be industrial. A generation ago, it probably was not a good idea for it to stay industrial. Today, it's definitely not a good idea for this to be industrial. So that's why we're here, and that's why the plan that you've transmitted to the state says, hey, somebody should make this something besides industrial. A walkable mixed-use area would be great, and that's what we plan to do with the area. What it does is it creates a series of future transit-ready stops along Fowler Avenue, consistent with the Fowler Avenue vision plan. That's in your staff report. The area is still at economic engine. It evolves from something that would have relied on industrial that never happened to kind of a destination area that would support future research and development jobs. This is why it's an economic engine. All those pink squares are where you would go to go to any of the regional destinations if you're coming from out of the area. This area is within walking distance of all of those pink squares and within biking distance of Moffitt Cancer Center and Busch Gardens and Adventure Island. It's consistent with the Imagine 2040 guiding principles as well as university district planning opportunities. The outcomes, as we stated early on, would be a walkable transformation of the area from a vacant industrial area surrounding a Mosey to a walkable mixed-use district providing economic opportunity to support the Mosey Museum itself. And thank you. We welcome your consideration for this event. Thank you. Any questions? Councilman Beyer. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. No, thank you for that. And I've been long excited about these changes. And, you know, I've been on Tampa City Council for about nine and a half, I guess nine and a half, ten years it's going on. And, you know, the USF and Fowler area and corridor, there's been a lot of different efforts, you know, organizations, different things that have tried to affect change on it. And I'm really glad to see this particular piece of land. I grew up in Temple Terrace, about ten minutes away from there. So I spent a lot of my childhood years at Mosey. But this is important. It's on us as well as our friends in the county commission in the state to make sure that with developments like this, that the North Tampa area stays one of the few welcoming areas in the city of Tampa where working class people can still, and middle of the middle class people, can afford to buy houses and have homes, et cetera. So we have to make sure, again, this is wonderful, this is great. It's going to be a rising tide. It's going to lift boats in the area. But we also have to make sure that, again, that, as I used to always say during Hurricane Milton, working class backbone of Tampa stays accommodating for folks there. But this is great. I'm glad to support this, and I thank you guys for your work. Thank you. Okay. So anybody in the public who wishes to speak to this item? Can I get a motion to close? Motion to close. Councilman Matascocco, second of Councilman Miranda. And Councilman Vera, since this is in your district, all those in favor to close and say, I oppose, I say, I'm trying to get us out of here by 7 o'clock. Thank you. That is a goal that I am. Exactly. Councilman Vera, would you like to read this? I will say amen to that, sir. I move an ordinance presented for first reading consideration ordinance amending Tampa comprehensive map, future land use element, future land use map for the property located at 11315 North 46th Street, 4101, 4615, 4901, East Fowler Avenue, 11302 North 50th Street, and folio number 14019. I'm sorry, strike that 140139.0000 and 140510.0000 from light industrial, heavy industrial, and public, semi-public to urban mixed-use 60 and community mixed-use 35, providing for repeal of ordinances and conflict, providing for severability, providing an effective date. I have a motion from Councilman Vera, second from Councilman Minna Scalco. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Second reading and adoption will be held on July 16th, 2026 at 10 a.m. at Old City Hall, located at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, third floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602. Very good. Thank you. Item number four. Good evening, Council. Megan McCarthy, Planning Commission staff. This is the hearing for TACPA 2602, located at 1701 East 2nd Avenue. This amendment is privately initiated, small scale, and encompasses approximately 0.39 acres. The request is to go from a light industrial future land use designation to- Hold on one second, please. CTTV, can we get this on the council monitors too, please? Thank you. Going from light industrial to urban mixed-use 60 future land use designation. This amendment is located within the Central Tampa Planning District, the Historic Ybor Neighborhood, the Ybor City Local Historic District, as well as the Coastal High Hazard Area. This is an aerial of the subject site, showing the site outlined in yellow. The surrounding area includes industrial uses directly to the east and south, as well as further east along Adamo Drive. To the north and west are scattered commercial uses, as well as residential further north of East 2nd Avenue. While the subject site is not within the Ybor City Urban Village or the Port Activity Center, those boundaries lie just to the north and south of the site, respectively. Starting with our subject site photos, this is looking directly at the subject site from North 17th Street. This is looking at industrial uses on the east side of the subject site with the subject site behind the camera. This is looking at commercial uses on the west side of the subject site with the subject site behind the camera, as well. This is looking south of the subject site at the Selman Expressway overpass. This is looking west along Adamo Drive. This is looking east along, and this is lastly looking east along Adamo Drive. Here we've referenced a historic map taken from TACPA 0626 before it was approved to change the area outlined in pink from heavy industrial to the urban mixed use 60 that you'll see on the next slide. This gives some perspective on the transition from industrial to mixed use designations over the last 20 years as a result of multiple plan amendments in the surrounding area, including 0626, as well as 0703, and more recently, plan amendment 2228, which approved multiple parcels to UMU 60, including the one that's directly north of our subject site. This is the adopted future land use map with the subject site outlined directly to the east and the southeast are light and heavy industrial. Mixed use categories, including UMU 60, CMU 35, and CC35, GMU 24, and CC35 comprise the rest of the surrounding area to the north, south, east, and west. The teal line delineates the coastal high hazard area. This portion is within the coastal high hazard area, and it's just over 72% within. This is the proposed future land use map showing the proposed urban mixed use 60 designation. Under the adopted future land use, the site is not eligible for residential development. Currently, the site could be considered for 25,482 square feet of industrial uses. Under the proposed UMU 60 designation, the site may be considered for 23 residential development units, or 55,211 square feet of residential or non-residential uses. This amendment would introduce the potential for residential uses and increase allowable residential and non-residential square footage, and remove the consideration of industrial uses. The application was sent to our partner agencies, and there were no objections to the request. The City of Tampa Planning Department found the request comparable and compatible with the surrounding area, and noted the potential conflict between land development code requirements and industrial development of this site. This amendment also went before the Barrio Latino Commission this past Tuesday, and was recommended for approval. The Planning Commission considered industrial preservation policies, as the site is currently under the light industrial flu designation and the IG zoning category, as well as policies related to the coastal high hazard area, being that all of the subject site is considered within the CHHA, since the percentage within is over 50%. As noted in our staff report, and by the City of Tampa staff, due to minimum requirements for development within the IG zoning category, the parcel is unlikely to allow for the development of a true employment-generating industrial use. Due to this factor, as well as the documented trend towards mixed use, staff found that the subject site may be favorable for the requested increase in density and removal of the consideration of industrial uses on the site. The proposed amendment is recommended to be found consistent with the policies and objectives of the Tampa Comprehensive Plan, including policies related to compatibility and surrounding development pattern, promotion of densities, supportive of mixed use in transit, as well as encouraging adequate housing supply and infill development. As the surrounding area is noted to be in transition to a more mixed use development pattern west of North 21st Street. The Planning Commission does recommend that the proposed map amendment be found consistent. And this concludes my presentation. I'm available for any questions. Council have any questions? Hearing none. Applicant? Good evening, Council. Alex Shaler, 400 North Ashley Drive. I will keep this one very short. I have a couple other ones to come back before you. So Meg set this up really well. We came before you all or Council with a comprehensive plan amendment for a large portion of land. We split it up into two sections. We had this portion of land that was north of Adamo Drive, and then we have what has become known as Ybor Harbor. At the time, we were in the process of acquiring this small strip of what looks to be right-of-way, but it's not. It's privately owned land. We did not have that under control at that time, so that was not included in this application. Going back through our files, we wanted to get this cleaned up and extend the UMU-60 on the northern portion, just extend that down to capture this remaining strip here along Adamo. It's currently used as parking right off of Adamo Drive. Again, it's a small site. So when Planning Commission staff was reviewing this, I know that there's broader concerns citywide about a loss of industrial land, and that's understood. Given the size of the site, there's nothing that we could reasonably accommodate industrial-wise. Just given the footprint, it's just less than half an acre. So it's located along a transit emphasis corridor, and this area is, as Planning Commission showed, it has trended towards mixed-use development in the past. So the Planning Commission Board found this application consistent, and the BLC found this recommended for approval earlier this week as well, and that's all I have, but I'm happy to answer questions. Any questions? Hearing none. Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Seeing none, can I get a motion to close? Motion to close. Councilman Miranda, second for Councilman Bureau. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Carlson, you want to read this one? Move item number four, file number TACPA 26-02, ordinance being presented for first meeting consideration, ordinance amending the Tampa comprehensive plan, future land use element, future land use map for the property located at 1701 East 2nd Avenue from Light Industrial LI to urban mixed-use 60 UMU 60, providing for appeal of all ordinances and conflict, providing for celebrability of writing effected date. Aye, motion from Councilman Carlson, second from Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Second Regan adoption will be held on July 16, 2026 at 10 a.m. at Old City Hall, located at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, third floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602. Thank you. Item number five. Third, share that on the screen, please. It'll come up. Theory. Yeah, start. Here it comes. You can start. Yeah. Ross Amos, Development Coronation, presenting file number VAC 26-09. The applicant is Eborland, LLC. The representative's name is Gardner Brewer-Hudson. Property address is 2301 East 7th Avenue. This is a proposed vacating request to vacate the alleyway lying north of CSX Railroad, south of 7th Avenue, east of 23rd Street, and west of 24th Street. This application was filed February 9, 2026. The right-of-way is unimproved. The right-of-way was created by Subdivision Platt. The existing right-of-way is approximately 3,500 square feet. The reason for the request, the requested alley vacations are necessary to facilitate a comprehensive, unified redevelopment and the surrounding blocks that will substantially improve public safety, infrastructure efficiency, and long-term land use compatibility with eliminating underutilized right-of-way that no longer serves as essential public function. And this is related to the proposed rezoning, REZ 26-28. Here's proposed vacating request, the alleyway in yellow, applicant's property in red, City of Tampa Alley sheet showing block 19 here, CSX is here, 7th is here. The plaid of East Seabor, in which the alley was dedicated. Here's an image of the general location of the alley looking east from 23rd Street, and a general location along the pole line here of where the general location of the alley is looking west from 24th Street. Staff has no objections to this vacating request. Easement reservations are required by TECO, Spectrum, Frontier, and Wastewater. I would also like to point out that it was heard by the Braille Latino Commission, and they did recommend the approval of this vacating. Special conditions, natural resources comply with Chapter 27 as regards to tree preservation and site design for any improvements placed adjacent to trees in a vacated area. That concludes my presentation. I'm available if you have any questions. Any questions? Hearing none, applicant? You did so well last time, let's keep it on the roll. You guys used to tell me that I talk too fast, but now you want me to go quicker. You've never heard me say that. Ever. Nobody has ever heard me say that. Alex Shaler, 400 North Ashley Drive, for the record. As Ross mentioned, this right-of-way vacating is in service of our PDA rezoning, which you'll hear a couple items from now. But I did want to give you some context, and again, I'm foreshadowing some of these larger maps. But I think it's important to see where this alley is located. So the singular alley that we are proposing to vacate in conjunction with the PDA, it's highlighted in yellow there with the red stars. So as you can see, it's pretty central. Got it. Okay. Pretty central to the larger redevelopment. This is it in another graphic. As you can see, that it's outlined in yellow there with the other kind of type A and type B streets shown as well. So we feel that there's inherent justification for this, and the prime reason is that this, given where it's located, I'll come back up here, given where it's located, central to the development, and it's a full block, being able to use that for structured parking is pretty critical for the development. And I know that we have our larger opinions about parking, but when you're redeveloping a very large district like this, this is 55 different parcels, we don't want to have parking on individual lots. I mean, that's the whole point that we're, one of the whole points that we wanted to do a PDA was for centralized parking, and this site is very well suited for that. BLC did hear this and did recommend approval for the same reason. We kind of showed them the overall vision. And they actually had us add a condition to the alley vacating that we did. We materialized this on the PDA site plan. They had asked that we put a plaque on the parking garage, which I thought was really unique. I hadn't heard that before. They wanted us to put a plaque there that would pay homage to the fact that the alley did exist. So while we won't be carrying the alley into the future in terms of operations, it'll still be memorialized there where it existed in history, which I thought was great. Staff didn't have any objections in any of the reviewing departments to the request. That's all I have, but I am happy to answer questions. Any questions? Hearing none. Does anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Can I get a motion to close? Motion to close. Councilman Escalco. Second, Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Young. Okay. File number VAC-26-09. Ordinance being presented for first reading consideration. An ordinance of the city of Tampa, Florida, vacating, closing, discontinuing, and abandoning that alleyway located north of CSX Railroad, south of 7th Avenue, east of 23rd Street, and west of 24th Street. As dedicated by the Platte of Terman's East Ybor subdivision in Ybor City, Hillsborough County, Florida, and as more fully described in section 2 hereof, subject to certain covenants, conditions, and restrictions, as more particularly set forth herein, providing for enforcement and penalties for violations, providing for definitions, interpretations, and repealing conflicts, providing for severability, providing an effective date. I have a motion for Councilwoman Young. I have a second for Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you very much. A second reading and adoption will be held on July 16th, 2026, at 10 a.m. at Old City Hall, located at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, third floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602. Thank you. The next public hearings, if you're here for any of the rest of the business tonight, you'll need to be sworn in if you're planning on speaking. Stand, raise your right hand, and be sworn in by the clerk. Very good. Thank you so much. Item number six. Good evening, Councilwoman Chairman. Leo de Bartolet and Development Coordination. Agenda item number six is AB 22608. This is a special use to request for the property located at 2105 West Morrison Avenue. The request is for alcoholic beverage sales with a small venue classification for beer, wine, and liquor, consumption on premises only. The aerial map is on the screen. The subject property is outlined in red. This property is located at the northeast corner of South Alita Street and West Morrison Avenue, just east of South Howard, within the central Tampa Planning District and along a mixed-use corridor. The property is on CI Commercial Intensive and currently operates as the Tiny Tap Tavern. You can see a mixture of PD uses along the mixed-use corridor here. This is the site plan that was presented by the applicant. The applicant is requesting approval to add liquor sales to an establishment that already currently operates as a bar lounge with beer and wine approval. Approval of this request would allow beer, wine, and liquor sales for on-premises consumption only. Customer access is provided through on South Alita Street, and the parking is located on the north part of the site and from West Morrison Avenue. The total alcoholic beverage sales area that is proposed and is existing already is 1,174 square feet, and it's all located indoors. I'll run through the photos real quick. This is the north elevation from West Morrison Avenue, facing west on West Morrison Avenue, towards Howard Avenue, facing west on West Morrison Avenue. Subject site is on the right here. This is along the CSX Railway. Subject property is on the left behind us. This is on South Alita Street. The subject property is on our left, and the Morrison apartment complex is to the right. This is the west elevation of the Tiny Tap. This is the south elevation from South Alita Street. Commercial uses on the right behind the site, and the mixed-use residential is multifamily uses on the west side of the site. Development review and compliance staff review the application and find the request inconsistent with the applicable City of Tampa land development regulations. Due to the requested waivers, minor site plan modifications are required between first and second reading. If council should move to approve. I'm available for any questions. Councilwoman Hurd. So you had a picture that had, like, some picnic tables outside. So you're saying the A-B area is only inside? The A-B area, yes, ma'am, is only indoors. Double check. Thank you. Applicant. Good evening, council. My name is Colin Rice, the law firm of Older Lundy, 1000 West Cass. I've been sworn here on behalf of the applicant. I have a couple of visuals for you. Appreciate Leo's introduction. So to be clear, we're here for the world-famous Tiny Tap Tavern. So established in 1934, tonight we're asking for your help to ensure that this funky little establishment can persist for decades into the future. So, again, the request is, you know, no package sales, consumption on-premises only, the same A-B area that's already approved, but just to add liquor to bring it up to current consumer tastes and working conditions. So, again, to orient you, we're right off of the Selman Expressway and the railroad right off of South Howard. Zooming in, you can see, you know, our strangely shaped lot here on Morrison and Oletta. So, this is the site plan submitted in 1952. You'll be relieved to know that they have hot and cold water. So, current site plan, again, same footprint. The area around it's grown up a lot, but it's really staying as is. We hold a neighborhood meeting. Great conversations with the neighbors. I'm not aware of any opposition, that the concerns were you're not going to change this, right? And he's committed even to keeping the weird old brown tables. So, he has a lot of respect, the current owner, for what this institution has meant over the years. And he's faithful to keeping that. So, it's a change of use. Not a change of use, just changing the juice. We have consistent fining from transportation. Leo added a note to restrict outdoor amplified sound. We are completely fine with that. And the only waiver is because there is an AB establishment 215, not 250 feet away. So, with that, I'll be happy to answer any questions. We request your approval tonight. Councilwoman Hurtay. Sure. So, I did have a question. Like I said, I mean, I saw the outdoor area. Is there a reason that you don't want to go ahead and just wet zone a little bit at the outside? So, we'd love to, but as you can imagine, this is a highly non-conforming site. So, once you change the use or increase intensity, it's a much bigger party. And we're just, we're not there. Understandable. Thank you. Okay. Any other questions? Hearing none. Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Hearing none. I have a motion to close. Councilman Miranda. Second. Councilman Manascoff. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Aye. Can I just say one thing? Do we need to reopen or do we want to finish? No. Do you have a question? Do you have a question? Yeah. I want to have a question. Motion to reopen. Motion from Miranda. Second from Amanda Scott. Call those in favor say aye. Aye. I'll close. Ayes have it. Councilman Carlson. So, you put the, between first and second reading, what we're approving now will include what you just said about the outdoor amplified sound, that it will prohibit that, right? On the site plan. Correct. Is that correct? I'll let Leo answer that. I just want to make sure, because what it didn't show is there are single family homes all around there too. Correct. Leo de Bartoling Development Coordination. I do have a supplemental revision sheet that I can do. I just want to make sure it's included. And Marty, we can't, Marty, or legal, we can't make this contingent on it staying the tiny tap, right? No. Okay. Can I get a motion to close again? So moved. Motion to close. Councilman Vera. Second for Councilman Manascoff. I'm sorry. Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. So I just have it. Thank you very much. Councilwoman Hurtig. Thanks. Second. I've got to read it. We've got to read it first. Yeah. Hey, you're being Alan now. She wants out by 7, too. So I do want to say that I am really happy to be reading this one, because I think there's nothing better than a dive bar, a small neighborhood space, and those are disappearing in the city of Tampa. So I'm really thrilled that they were able to keep this. So file number A, B, and by the, I believe Ms. Johnson-Velez told me that this is a 74-year-old alcohol permit? I think even old. Okay. Well, either way, very, yeah. So this is a historic use if I've ever heard of one. File number AB2-26-08, ordinance being presented for first reading consideration and ordinance approving a special use permit, SU-2, for alcoholic beverage sales, small venue, consumption on-premises only, and making lawful the sale of beverages, regardless of alcoholic content, beer, wine, and liquor, on that certain lot, plot, or tract of land located at 2105 West Morrison Avenue, Tampa, Florida, as more particularly described in Section 3, providing that all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict are repealed, repealing ordinance number 1463-A, providing an effective date, including the revision sheet. I have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtek, a second from Councilman Maniscalco, Councilman Carlson. I just, just following what Councilmember Hurtek said, for the community, this is not just a neighborhood bar. This is, I think, one of the most important pubs, bars in Tampa. It's one of the most important cultural destinations in Tampa. I've had visitors from all over the country, around the world, and I can take them to Plant Hall. All these, they can go to Burns, everything, they go to Tiny Tap, and they love it. Everybody loves it exactly the way it is. And so, you said the feedback from the community was to keep it. Please, if you guys, if the owners have any issues trying to say, this is a really important cultural icon in our entire city, so I hope that we can keep it like that. Okay, I have a motion. I have a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Okay. Second reading and adoption will be held on July 16, 2026, at 10 a.m. at Old City Hall, located at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602. Let's keep it rolling. All right. Leo DeBart-Laban Development Coordination. Agenda item number seven is file number AB2-2609. This is a special use to request for the property located at 1281 Ray Charles Boulevard. The request is for alcoholic beverage sales with a large venue classification for beer, wine, and liquor consumption on-premises, package sales, I'm sorry, and package sales off-premises consumption. The aerial map is on the screen. The subject property is outlined in red. The property is located on North Nebraska Avenue and Ray Charles Boulevard here. This is within the West, I'm sorry, the Encore Development in the Central Tampa Planning District along a mixed-use corridor and within the Central Park Urban Village. The property is zoned PD, planned development, and is currently under construction as part of the Encore Development. This is the site plan that was presented by the applicant. The proposed establishment will function as a neighborhood market and cafe occupying a portion of the ground floor commercial space within the mixed-use development. Approval will allow for retail package sales of beer, wine, and liquor, as well as on-premises consumption within the cafe component of the business. Customer access is provided from Ray Charles Boulevard and North Nebraska Avenue. The total alcoholic beverage sales area is 23,783 square feet, consisting of 23,022 square feet of indoor area and 761 feet of outdoor area. I'll run through some pictures real quick. This is the northeast elevation of the subject site. The cafe and retail portion is occupying the first floor here. This is the east elevation from North Nebraska Avenue. This is the east elevation, the southern portion of that same building. Facing south on North Nebraska. Facing north on North Nebraska. This is the corner of North Nebraska and East Maryland Avenue. So, what we're just looking at is directly behind us. This is facing north on North Nebraska towards East Scott Street here at the light. This is facing south on Blanche Armwood Street. So, the subject site is on our left. Facing south on Blanche Armwood and Ray Charles. It's facing east. This would be the west elevation. And this is facing west. Development Review and Compliance Staff have reviewed the application and find the request consistent with the applicable City of Tampa land development regulations. Minor site plan modifications will be required between first and second reading if council should move to approve this. And I'm happy to have any questions. Can you please put the site plan back on and show me where the outdoor space is? Absolutely. So, the outdoor area is identified as parcel three. So, it's just a small patio. Okay. But parcel two is the main? That will be the market. Yes, I do. Okay. So, do we have anything about outdoor amplified noise? I believe there is a no on the site plan. Okay. Yeah. There is no. Well, between first and second reading, that's one of the revisions we asked for. No amplified sound is allowed. Okay. And then, what are the hours of operation? Because 24,000 square feet is a lot, and we just really want to make sure that what we're doing is that we're not enabling something else down the line. The proposed hours are consistent with Chapter 14. I'm going to have to ask the applicant about that. Okay. Thank you. No problem. Okay. Q applicant. David Smith, 401H Jackson Street. Sterns-Weber Miller, Director of Development and Zoning for the applicant. Did a good job in orientation, pretty excited about this coming forward. All of Oncar, now all the lots are sold. I was originally the planner that developed and got the PD zoning approved in 2008 for this development to move forward. We've been trying to get a grocery store in the location for quite some time, finally been successful with the current developer. That's really what the anchor of this request is. Here's the location. Here's Encore Development in general. Putting the site plan back up that was shown to you previously, we have a very small outdoor space, about 671 square feet. It's only accessed directly from inside the grocery store. As far as the hours go, I did confirm with the applicant that the grocery store is going to operate from about 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., 7 days a week. The liquor store will be 11 o'clock to 9, Sunday through Wednesday, and then it will go to 10 o'clock. So this is not a large venue bar operation. The large venue is for a sip and stroll, just like you have in Publix's and, you know, in other parts, you know, Whole Foods. And so that's the intent of the request. Again, small liquor store, companion with the grocery store. It's really bonique, about 22,000 square feet total. So just because we're really trying to protect the possibilities, because this alcohol zoning runs with the land, would they be willing to do something like 6 a.m. to midnight? So kind of like widening what they might need. So giving a little bit of parameters, if indeed something were to happen and this might change use, would that be something that would be amenable? I would have to confirm with them, before I came, I actually asked them about the intended average of operation, which was what I indicated. Yeah, which is why I gave you a much tighter right. Yeah, I thought wider would be better, in case it ended up becoming something different. Midnight, I think, is, again, more palatable to the residents around them. That seems reasonable. That's something I'd have to confirm with them exactly. I'm pretty sure that they're not going to be uncomfortable with it, because they were ready to commit to these hours. How about between first and second reading? Yeah, between first and second reading, I can get that confirmation from the applicant. So how do we best do that? Staff, if the applicant isn't ready to confirm that at this point, how do we? Bless you. Between first and second reading, we can add a condition that if they do agree to it, that would be one of the changes that's happening. Okay. Councilor LaShawn Dock, Development Coordination, just want to state on the record and just place on the record, is council okay if he speaks with his client and he does not want to change those hours? What would be the direction of council at that point? And that's why I'm asking, because I'm not comfortable with Chapter 14, because that goes to 3 a.m., and again, that doesn't need that for a grocery store, but I'm willing, I think it's fine to widen it in case it becomes a full restaurant or something like that, but just 3 a.m. is really hard for a 24,000-square-foot piece. And there's no intent on the applicant's part to have this be open to 3 a.m. Sure, but in 20 years, you just never know. So, again, I think we're all just trying to be more cognizant as we develop that the rest of the neighbors will have a good neighbor. And again, I mean, you just don't know. I think that the sense here is that between first and second reading, speak with the applicant and take your chances. Yeah. I mean, I think, again, if they were here right now, I could probably confirm. But I know that they had stated these were the errors of operation, so if it's the pleasure, I think the commitment would be that we commit to these errors of operation, and then we confirm in between first and second reading regarding the 6 a.m. to midnight. Yeah, I mean, I don't even know. What time does the grocery store open? 8? 7? Well, this one's open. The grocery store's going to open at 7 o'clock. Okay, well, then let's do 7 a.m. to midnight. How's that? I mean, it's fine. That's beyond what they were saying they were going to operate. Okay, so we'll move forward with that, knowing what you're hearing from Council, and you can bring that between first and second reading. Yes, sir. But we're going to move forward with the first reading tonight. Yep. Okay. Very good. Thank you very much. Is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak to this item? Mr. Councilman Carlson, do you have something to say? I just want to ask him, is this, I was just looking up to reconfirm, but can you tell me, is this Dr. K's property or is it adjacent to it? Point, I'm sorry. Is this Dr. K's property or is it adjacent to it? Oh, this is the Orient. Yeah, I just want to, and I saw Christian walk, I just want to thank the family for following through on their promises when they came through to us before a couple years ago. They talked about putting a grocery store in it, so thank you to them for following through on that. I will relay that to them. I'm sure they're watching tonight. This is a mixed-use building, residential, medical office, and the retail on the bottom, so it's a good deal. Yeah, it's a great building. Thank you. Very good. Anybody in the public who wants to speak to this item? Hearing none. Motion closed. Motion closed to Councilman Maniscalco, seconded Councilman Randall. Those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. I said the Councilman Maniscalco. I have an ordinance being presented for first reading approving a special use permit SU-2 for alcoholic beverage sales, large venue consumption, on-premise package sales, off-premise consumption, making lawful the sale of beverages regardless of alcoholic content, beer wine, and liquor on that certain law plot or tract of land, located at 1281 Ray Charles Boulevard, Tampa, Florida, is more particularly described in Section 2, providing that all ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict are repealed, providing an effective date, and with the revision sheet, and then the hours that we stayed at, which I believe were 7 a.m. to midnight. Okay. We have, are we putting that in the motion, the hours without consent from the- He said yes. Well, he said he was going to check with the owners. No. He said yes, put it in, and then he would approve, or, and then he would check, and if they said no, then they would have to come for first reading again. Okay. Very good. Okay. We have a motion. Councilman Moran- I'm at Scalco, seconded Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Thank you. Second reading and adoption will be held on July 16th, 2026 at 10 a.m. at Old City Hall, located at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, third floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602. Thank you. Next. Have a good night. Good evening, Council. Leo DeBart-Layton Development Coordination. I do also have a supplemental revision sheet for this one as well. Agenda item number eight is AB2-2614. This is a special use to request for the properties located at 1301 East 4th Avenue, 1306 East 4th Avenue, 1302 East 2nd Avenue, and 1315 East 5th Avenue. The request is for alcoholic beverage sales with a large venue classification for beer, wine, and liquor, consumption on-premises, and package sales off-premises consumption. On your screen is an aerial depiction of the subject site. Those four addresses that I just read off are outlined in red. The subject property is part of the Gas Works Development and consists of blocks E1, E2, and E3. The property is located on the east side of North Avenida Republica de Cuba. This property is located along the Central Tampa Planning District along a mixed-use corridor and within the Ybor City Urban Village. The property is zoned Plan Development Alternative, PDA, under rezoning case REZ-21114. This is the site plan that was submitted by the applicant. What's shown here is block E1 here, block E2 here, and block E3. The applicant is requesting a master alcoholic beverage sales approval for those three blocks on the Gas Works Development. Approval would allow for future tenants within the development to conduct alcoholic beverage sales under a single AB sales approval, subject to the conditions and limitations shown on the site plan. Approved uses within the development include residential retail sales, office, business professional, and medical office, bar lounge, restaurant, recreational facility, hotel motel, personal services, and microbrewery uses. Approved uses within the development include, I'm sorry, the site plan establishes maximum alcoholic beverage sales areas, operating conditions, reporting requirements, and security measures for future tenants. The total alcoholic beverage sales area proposed is 181,783 square feet, consisting of 142,174 square feet of indoor sales area and 39,609 square feet of outdoor sales area. There are 795 parking spaces that are required, and the applicant is providing 993. Outdoor amplified sound is permitted until 10 p.m. except for bar lounge uses, where outdoor amplified sound is prohibited. Some pictures. This is facing east on East 4th Avenue and North 14th Street. Block E1 is on the right, block E2 is on the left. The construction is already underway. This is the east elevation of blocks E2 and E3 from 4th Avenue. This is facing east on 4th Avenue, so our view was directly behind us on the previous picture. This is the east elevation of the building on block E3. This is facing west on East 3rd Avenue and 14th Street. This is block 2 on the right and block E3 on the left. This is facing west on East 3rd Avenue and North 14th Street. This is the private Paseo that was approved through the PD or the PDA. This is facing east on East 3rd Avenue and North 14th. Commercial uses in the surrounding blocks, commercial uses. This is facing south on East 5th Avenue and North 14th Street. This is 14th Street here, and this is block E1. Development Coordination staff reviewed the application and find the request inconsistent with the applicable City of Tampa land development regulations due to the requested waiver for distance separation along from another alcoholic beverage establishment. Transportation staff was consistent. A site plan modification, including revisions identified in the supplemental revision sheet, are required between first and second reading should City Council move to approve. The supplemental revisions include limiting outdoor, I'm sorry, limiting alcohol beverage sales hours for all A-B sales locations to no later than 1 a.m. and restricting three APS licensed uses to no more than two locations as agreed following discussions with members of the public. And I'm available for any questions. Can you please put the site plan back up? Sure. And show us, show me where the 39,000 square feet of outdoor space is. So there is some outdoor area located here, and then in this Paseo, which is... Okay. And so what you're saying is these outdoor areas, the amplified noise would have to stop at 10 p.m.? If it's a bar lounge use, that's what they've, that's what they've... No, you said bar lounge use, noise prohibited. Oh, right. And then 10 p.m. for any amplified noise, would that would include the Paseos? Oh, I can ask the applicant, too, if I'm getting too far in the weeds. And then the other thing I just wanted to see, because this is an absolute insane amount of square footage of alcohol, can you show me exactly where, because I couldn't tell by the site plan where, what is being wet zoned? Is it every single inch? So, yes, ma'am. Yes, but I... So it is the total footprint. Most of these, I believe, and the applicant can speak to that, I think most of it is on the ground floor commercial portions of the building. And then, so if they have a tenant that goes in with the restaurant use, and then those, that total square footage will be deducted from that. Okay, yeah, I'll ask the applicant, because this is, I'm very uncomfortable with this. Alex Shaler, 400 North Ashley Drive. I have Damian Prosiga with Kettler here with me as well. It's all, both part of the Gasworks project. Leo set this up. These are actively under construction today, as you know, they're, like, flying out of the ground. We have E1, E2, and E3. The E just stands for East. These are part of the larger PDA. There is the CSX rail tracks to the north, and then 14th Street is to the east. You can't see it in this photo because of the buildings, but Channel Side Drive is bounding these on the west, and then you have 2nd Avenue there to the south. This might give you a little bit of color in terms of the site plan. So I can kind of walk through this in a little bit more detail, but the indoor I have shaded in kind of the light pink and the outdoors in blue. In terms of what exactly were wet zoning, yes. So E1 is going to be a multifamily building. All of the entire ground floor is going to be retail, restaurant, mixed uses there. So as you can see, yes, we're going to be wet zoning this ground floor that wraps around the podium parking garage, as you can see in the middle. E2, this building here on the left, this is going to be a market hall building. So think kind of similar to Armature Works. It's that existing warehouse that we're adaptively reusing. So that's a large bulk of the wet zoning area as well. That's going to be indoor. And then, as you can see, there is some outdoor sales area associated with that, too, to the west there. And then this building here, closest to 14th Street, that's going to be an office. We are wetting the ground floor of that. And then a portion of the fifth floor, that's going to be a rooftop. You can kind of see in this photo, I don't know if you can see my mouse, but you can kind of see this outdoor rooftop area there. That's a portion of the fifth floor that's contributing to the outdoor square footage as well. And then, yes, as Leo mentioned, the Paseo, this is going to be private, non-vehicular, even pedestrian activated. And then the building E3, this is also a multifamily building as well with the activated ground plane wetting this area around the parking garage. This next slide, yes. I do want to note that, yeah, we understand this is a lot of square footage. Completely understood. These are maximums, and I think that, you know, in discussions with the retail leasing team, we are not confident whatsoever that all of this area is going to end up wet. Like, right, some of this will be retail. They won't be like wedding dress shops where they have glasses of wine available. Like, not all of this is going to be wet, but in terms of, and Damien can speak to this probably a little bit better than I can, but in terms of selecting specific tenants and tenants wanting to move around to different spaces, we just, we didn't want to get into the situation where we're coming to you all for every single box that we have. And so we thought if we get the ground floor wet, we're allowed to kind of move tenants as need be around into different spaces. These are the list of permitted uses that we're including in the wet zoning. Again, this is a pretty wide breadth of uses, but, you know, general commercial uses that we could see within, not only within the development, but more specifically on the ground floor. And again, I mean, this is going to be heavily retail and restaurant uses, but, you know, we wanted to cover our basis and have, you know, personal services, commercial recs, stuff like that as well. So, um, this was mentioned, but yes, we are committing to, um, prohibiting sales past 1am for all blocks in all uses. And then the amplified sound, yes, that is prohibited past 10pm indoor and outdoor. Obviously this is outdoor amplified sound, but not indoor, um, not past 10pm. But then again, yes, we are prohibiting that for the bar lounge use, um, outdoor. And your team usually comes up with very creative legal ideas to the point about all this space. Is there, is there any solution that says within a given amount of space, um, a certain number of square feet will be allocated that could float depending on where it is? Is there any, is there any kind of flexible agreement? It's really, it's not just blanket. Yeah, it's really tough with the way that the city does these wet zoning legal descriptions. Like for example, in St. Pete, you can go in and file for an address in the same day you would get a wet zoning approved without a legal description. We have to have a legal description tied to every single wet square foot. So it does make it tough to have kind of floating space, but heard you on that one. Um, I'm going to have Damien come up and speak a little bit and then, um, sure. I can answer. Another question. Councilwoman. Yeah. Can you go back, um, a couple of slides? So, A, with the office roof deck. Sure. Uh, is that going to follow the 10 p.m. amplified noise or can we just simply have no amplified noise on a roof deck? Do you know anything? Um, I, I don't know for sure if that's going to be classified as a bar lounge or if it's going to be a restaurant. That's my thought. If they're serving food, if that qualifies as a restaurant, then they would be allowed to do it until 10 p.m. and not be prohibited. But, again, it would be a restaurant today, but in 20 years, it's a nightclub. Sure, sure. Yep. And it's amplified until 10 p.m. And it's bothering the people who live next door and who's got, who have small children. I mean, not, like, again, I wish we did not have to do this, but it runs with the land. And Ybor specifically is an area that we are trying to walk away from the, the nightclub-ification, which brings me to the market hall building. And that is when the one I'm the most concerned about. I think for the rooftop, so I think we are covered in that sense that if it is a bar lounge, it will not have outdoor amplified sound. So I think we're good there. Right. So, so no bar lounge on, on the roof deck, but that's, I guess that's my question. How do we, so how are you going to each individual space and saying, this is going to be the bar lounge. This is going to be this. This is going to be that. Yeah. Because right now you're telling me, well, that's not going to be a bar lounge, but how do I know that? Right. Because that's not on the site plan. Right. Right. No, I think she's saying that if it's a bar lounge, they're not going to permit out. Yes. On the site plan, there's no amplified music. But on the site plan, it does not say that that's going to be a restaurant. It just says indoor A-B sales area. What she's saying is it could be any of these mixes, but we don't know what they are. But if it is a bar lounge, they're not going to permit outdoor amplified sound. Okay. I know, but I'm. But yeah, understood in the sense that it is hard at, you know, this early in the stage of where, you know, we're still working with potential tenants to pin down which uses go where. But I understand your concern about, you know, and I think that, you know, between readings, I don't want to speak for Damien, but I mean, I think we could, if there's concern about certain spaces becoming like blanket bar lounge, I think we could limit that or add a square footage cap or something to make that more comfortable. That's what I'm talking about with the 31,900 square feet of alcohol permit till 1 a.m. You just don't know. Yeah. And again, this is what this community keeps coming back to us over and over again about. Sure. So I, I'm just going to ask these questions because I, because it's going to be on me. Right. Yeah. Just, just to add to that, you know, there's this big movement in Ybor, including by your clients to, to turn Ybor back into a community and the neighborhoods are bought in. I think most of the businesses are bought in and we've been trying to limit a new AB license because a bunch of them were given out in the nineties. And so, um, is there, it, could you keep in mind, probably the neighborhoods are watching the other property owners are watching. Um, what's the best case for why if we're limiting in other parts of Ybor, why this area should have AB, but also this much AB. Of course. Yeah. And I think that this is, this is a bit different because it's gas works in general is relatively insular, right? I mean, there, there are, I'm not saying there are not residential properties near here. I mean, there's obviously proximate residential. This is Ybor. Um, but I think that what we were trying to do and Damien will speak to this more, but you know, especially as terms of them being a master operator of this, there is a little bit more control. Now, of course, to your point, Councilwoman Hertak, they're a master operator now, but in, you know, 20 years, are, are they still going to be a master operator? I can tell you that the answer is yes, but again, there's a level of trust there. And so I think that in terms of this development, it's, it's very similar to something like Midtown, like Midtown came in and did something very similar where they wet all of the ground floors across all of Midtown and they had chapter 14 hours. And again, that was a different time. And I, I understand that things have changed. Um, but I, I, I do think that with these limiting, these levers that we're able to pull in terms of no outdoor amplified sound past 10 and closing at 1 AM. I mean, we are committed to ensuring that this isn't some large gathering of bars, but you know, I understand that it runs with the land, but what I would ask is that Damien could finish off our presentation and that I can answer more questions. So, okay. Sure. Hello. I'm Damien Persiga, uh, 1902 North 14th street. I'm a managing director at Kettler. Um, what I wanted to do is just kind of give a brief overview of the buildings. I think it's important to recognize that, you know, that are, we have residents. We, we've actually have 1300 units that are built in, in gas works. We've already completed 800 of them. Um, and that's the La Union and Stevedore. Um, and we're currently building the other 500 that would be opening within these three buildings. Um, so this is the E1, which is called the Louisa. It's 140 units over, um, 18,000 square feet of ground floor retail, and it has the 520 parking spots. This is Barrio Market, which is the 28,000 square foot, um, market that we were talking about earlier. This is our office, which is a hundred thousand square foot fully leased office building with 15,000 square feet of ground floor retail and that rooftop. Um, and all of that, this is 375, uh, residential units with over 28,000 square feet of retail. Um, with these units being built, I think it's, it's important to recognize that it's important. It's, we have to ensure that we're respecting our residents, um, that are over the retail. We want to make sure we're controlling what happens on a ground level. And we feel by doing this, by having this master wet zoning where we can easily can, we can better control, um, our tenants, whether it's from noise, liquor sales, there could be some bad apples and, and we can actually control their leases, whether we're giving them a warning for every noise or, or liquor violations or, or drink violations. We can, uh, financially impact them and we can even evict them. The last thing we want to do is, is have individual, um, tenants really pull their own wet zoning and really all they're caring about is their sales. So we have mechanism to re really be able to control what we're doing, um, and how we can control our tenants. I think it's also important to recognize we are longterm land owners. We don't expect to sell these units and it's our obligation once again, to take care of our patrons, make sure they're safe, our residents and really take care of our assets. So it's important for us to take care of this investment as well. So, um, and ultimately, like we feel that we have the biggest strength to control what, what happens within these retail outlets. As for the office rooftop, um, we do have a 10 year lease on that floor level. That is an office tenant that will be using the tenant. Uh, that's that area that open terrace for their own use. But to your point, 10 years down the road, if it is a lounge, we, you know, we obviously have to follow the city's ordinance. We have to follow it. It's if there is a new to that happens to be a lounge after the 10 years, then we would follow the city's ordinances. Um, yeah, actually, let me see. What's the next one? Yeah, absolutely. Any questions? Um, could you just, um, walk me through one more time, which, um, E1, E2, E3, what, which is which? E1 is the Louisa or hold on the Louisa, which is all residential residential with 18,000 square feet of ground floor retail, which is part of the wet zoning. Okay, grow finance or the, the office or E2 office is a hundred thousand square foot office over 15,000 square feet of retail and the roof terrace. Okay. So no residential at all, just office and retail. That's right. Okay. And then barrio market. That's the market, the 28,000 square foot market. That's E3. That is E2 market. So E2 office and E2 market. Okay. There's Olivet, which is E3 and that's 376 units over 28,000 square feet of retail. And then I think it's also important to mention La, La Union and Stevedore, which is also part of our Gasworks community. And what's, what's, um, okay. So E1 is Louisa, E2 is the office and barrio market. Correct. And then E3 is? Olivet. Okay. It's also important to just say that we're creating a neighborhood, not an entertainment district. And I think by having the way we've set up the design and the architecture with all of our residents over the wet zoning and retail is important to recognize. We need to make sure we're controlling that. Last thing we want is complaints from our residents. Councilman Miranda. Well, in a way really it resembles something like Midtown. That's right. Uh, just with the Spanish flavor. And, um, it's something unique, something different. And, and like one of the council members, uh, her tech spoke, uh, the, the problem not with you or us was is that I'm, I like it. I really enjoy this because I see, uh, a difference of, uh, people coming back to Ebo city and live. Not that they're not there now, but you have a vicinity here that you're close to everything you need within your own area. You can play, you can have a drink, you can go to the marketplace, you can go to, if you need something at temper general innovation center, you can go to buildings that you own on both sides. I believe that Nick news, your Boulevard on the other side. And that walks in, drives into, uh, to all the sparkling new things and, uh, on the east side of town, downtown, and, and it's a, a concept that is really laid out very nice. Uh, you've got a park, uh, you have things for your, however, you have your, your own destiny holder of what happens to yourself, uh, because your, your buildings are all mixed use. They're not, uh, not one thing or the other. Yes, you have alcohol, it's just about everywhere and, and in a way that's positive and in a way that's dangerous because alcohol stays with the land forever. And that wasn't a council script. It was one from Tallahassee that they did, I don't know how many years ago. And, and these are the things that are there that, uh, could be dangerous, but the way you spoke and the way you handle it, I think it's fine. You have some restriction on those possibilities that might happen. Uh, and it, the way your life is, if it might happen, it could happen. And, uh, what I'm looking here is something that, uh, it, it's really, really unique. It's, uh, it's like a miniature downtown or maybe equal to downtown or what you have that the Vedic brothers, the Vedic family, and, uh, and the CRA is built all around the, uh, east side of downtown. And what did you have? There's another part of a city and this looks like another part of a city somewhere else, just in close proximity to that. So you don't longer see the sticky banana docks. You don't longer see the old Coca-Cola building that was there. You don't see all the drugs, the prostitution, everything you had there 40 years ago. Back in the nineties, it started that way and look at it now. So it took individuals with, uh, some foresight and a lot of gambling to get where it's at, that it would work. And when you gamble, sometimes you win and sometimes you don't lose. And, uh, but it is what it is. And, uh, I have to applaud you because this is, uh, something different that, uh, and I know the, the problem is the alcohol, but the layout of it is, it's like another city coming in with a different look and the way it looks now, the loser is really yourself. If you don't control your alcohol in the buildings that you're in, yes, it's forever, but the loser is you because you're taking upon yourself the risk that that alcohol license performs to whatever standard is required by law. And there's where the problem comes. You become a winner and you're gambling that you won't be a loser. And that's how it is. In my mind. Thank you. Councilwoman. Um, I think councilman Miranda, you know, made a good point. 40 years ago, Ybor was empty. It 40 years before that, it was very similar to this, but then people left and it turned into a nightclub district to survive. And there were still people living above the storefronts. So this is why I'm concerned because this is what this neighborhood has tried so very hard to get out of. And by providing so much alcohol square footage, it's just, I'm, I'm very uncomfortable without having a little more, um, solid knowledge. Um, and again, the thing that's most concerning for me is the barrio market. It is a huge piece of land. I mean, that's 28,000 square feet of alcohol permitted till 1 AM. That could easily become a dance hall, could become things. I just, again, I'm concerned about what happens in 40 years. You cannot guarantee you're going to own this forever. You cannot guarantee that this is going to remain. I mean, in this is cute. Yes. But I'm, I'm, this is, so my question is, what are the three APS licenses? What are those? Sure. I can talk to that. Um, those are package sales for beer, wine, and liquor. And so I know that there was some concern floated around from the neighborhood. They weren't overly concerned, but they had told us that, you know, with other developments that have come online and eat more, you know, they've been hesitant for like liquor stores. Um, so anything we have limited our spaces to only having at the most two of those specific licenses for package sales. Okay. And then I have a question for staff or legal, probably legal, but might be staff. I'm not quite sure. Are you, are you done with the presentation? Um, yeah, we can, I'll, I'll do a rebuttal, but yeah, I just want to say, you know, I, I think there's good precedent projects that have, that have had great success, great safety. Armature works is, is one, a midtown, midtown, um, water street. I mean, you're, you're seeing as long as there's good security, safety, and we, we are providing all that. There is, once again, we're able to police this better because we're controlling the master, uh, wet zoning and alcohol licenses. Rather than the individual tenants. I think that's a great strength. We, we can financially burden these tenants, but if they're not following the rules or they're impacting, you know, the risk of us losing that license. And so it's really important that for us, that we're able to manage this properly and to the fullest. So. Thank you. And I appreciate that. But literally this is what we're, we're fighting right now with armature works is a, is an alcohol and noise problem. So that is what we're doing right now. And literally we, we were supposed to talk about that in a workshop today. So my question is for staff. And my question is, um, is there a way when it comes to bar and lounge that you can prohibit a nightclub? Or is that just not a possibility? Leo, the Bartolome development coordination, um, city council can condition the site plan like how, how you choosing it. Okay. Okay. So, so, and, and this, so, I mean, the applicant, I would be interested to know if, if you would be willing to put that for the barrio marketplace that on the site plan, that it will never be a nightclub. No, I mean, if you can condition that, then that's my ask. We were on the same wavelength, because I was asking LaShawn the same question. Um, so again, I mean, not to use armature works as a comparison, but I think for the barrio market, we're envisioning something like armature works where there's restaurants and small bars. And so I was trying to ask LaShawn what the zoning use would be. Like the AB use would be large venue, but the zoning use, I'm confident it wouldn't be bar lounge, but I was trying to figure out what is that use. That's like a place of assembly, but with restaurants and retail. So that's what I think that we were trying to figure out. Which is why it wouldn't be hard to just put never a nightclub on the site plan. Right. I think we're, I think we're okay with doing, especially for the barrio market specifically. Like I'm okay with saying that that will never be single use bar lounge for the whole square footage of that. Okay. Then, then, then that's fine. So again, I mean, I don't want this to not, I, we're just, we, we really just want to be, and so for the 28,000, if I could get that as the note of no bar, no bar lounge, like overall bar lounge, single use. Thank you. I appreciate that. I like that language. No single use bar lounge. Yeah. I am, I am much less concerned. I am still a little concerned about the rooftop. Yep. Um, but knowing that that amplified noise must stop at 10 PM. I am more comfortable with that. That's the problem. Um, the other, the, to the, to those points also in other, um, AV license that we've, or applications that we've, um, we've limited the hours instead of, um, instead of 1 AM or 3 AM, we've limited them to 10, for example, partly next to some of their housing so that we wouldn't affect that, the people living there. But if it, if it would, if the hours were less, then it wouldn't, it also wouldn't become a late night bar. Is there any possibility of anything like that? I think given the fact that this is district wide, we really wanted to keep 1 AM because we don't want the lights to go out at 10 PM. You know, I mean, I think that this is supposed to be a district and we, we want people to have places to go out to eat after they get off work and, you know, et cetera, if they're working different jobs. And so I think that that 10 PM to me, I think is, it's probably a bit too early. I mean, even the restaurants per a regular AB one can stay up open till 1 AM on the weekend. So we felt that 1 AM was reasonable, but if council has different, different opinions on that, we're, we're happy to hear. I have a, for clarification, I just want to make sure I understood this right. Maybe I didn't. You said that if it is a bar lounge, there's no amplified outsourced door music period. That is correct. So any of the, so if it's going to be a bar and lounge, even like that rooftop, if it's ever declared a bar and lounge, they'll never be any outdoor music. So, and even like the barrio market, if it's a bar lounge, because that's basically outdoor, they can't have amplified music, but there will never be amplified music in an outdoor area. Correct. And if a bar lounge. Yes. If it's a bar lounge. Yes. If it's designated, so if, if, if for some, we won't end up in that situation, like they have like, we're talking about the problematic bar at arm armature, because it's outside that what they've done by restricting outdoor amplification. Right. Minimize that risk or eliminate that risk. And that was the intent. Yeah. Okay. Councilman Thompson. Remember the, the issues we had with the, the towers at channel side. Mm-hmm. So without naming the, the place underneath, it was not, it was not necessarily sound. Sound was one thing, but it was a sound outside and the things that people were doing after they were drunk running around outside. But that was a bar. And they won't be able to do that. But still, I'm just saying that there's, there's concerns about, about what happens around that and having too much concentration of is there's the, the reason why the distance requirements are there is so that you can spread it out a little bit when there are big concentrations of people, um, drunk leaving a place, especially late at night. I feel seen. Yeah. And that is a good point too. I, this, I don't know that this was mentioned. I think Leo did mention it briefly, but, um, as part of our monitoring, we'll have security and annual monitoring. So there are some, some enforcement, some ways for you all in the city to enforce compliance with any kind of issues. One more, one more from council. And if I, and I'm not comparing this to anything else, but I remember many years ago at the once great, beautiful building in Miami beach called the fountain blue hotel. There was a place called tropicala and sure it was, it was a hotel, but they had shows there for about, it was about 400 seats, maybe 500 seats in the side of the hotel, inside the hotel. And that place was sold out every single night. And every three or four months, they changed the show. And they had show girls, they had bands, they had music. And the two guys that, one guy is still living here in Tampa, his name is Alex Cora. And he's, he's Maritza's husband that owned the building right there on cargo road and Osborne. And he was a sound man for all that show. And he lives in Tampa. And the other one was Gabby Gabrielle, who was a lead singer. And he'll be coming to do some for somebody that I know real well. And late October, the first week of November. And what they did there was just, you couldn't get in the place unless you had reservations six months in advance. And that's how it was. It was beautiful. There was no, no music outside. It was all inside. And I'm not saying this will be something like that and they won't, but I'm saying Tampa is ready for something like that. It's some big hotel or something, because if you don't do it, somebody is going to do tourism that you won't just like the convention center. We don't expand it. We're going to be dead, but this is a zoning matter, but I'm just saying what it is. And so these are things that you have to look at when you sit on this side of the desk or that side of the desk or in the chair. What do we do with success? You cannot stay still, because if you do, somebody else is going to take success over. Thank you. I think we're chasing each other. Let's move to public comment first. No, I have a question. Okay. Well, we've been questioning this to death, so let's lead with this. No, I have a, so my question is for all this square footage, what is the number of spaces, like actual retail, restaurant, what are the number of individual spaces that you're looking for? Other than that barrio market, which is, you know. Under 30. Under 30. So do you have a number of bar lounges that you're going to allow? I don't think we have a certain cap on them because we're, so it's also interesting because the smaller spaces, so if you have less than 250 seats, you cannot pull the special restaurant. So there's limitations on that because that's what we've run into in the past where even if we have a restaurant, maybe somebody's still doing 51% food, but they're too small to qualify. Okay. So that's, that's another reason why we've run into this before and we were like, let's just put this all in the same because we think a lot of these boxes are going to be too small to qualify. Yeah. I'm still really, I'm, I'm just really worried about bar lounge. Sure. I mean, just. Let's hear from the public. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? I do. Okay. Come on. Start with your name, please. Chris Voidovich, W-O-J-T-O-W-I-C-Z, 1508 North 20th Street, a local resident, just blocks from this development. Just real quick. I know you guys want to get done by seven. This is going to remind me a lot of Water Street. So you have the opportunity to have restaurants that have outdoor space, which is something we really struggle with and I'd like to see more of them kind of excited about having it here. And we have the opportunity to have events. If you've been to Water Street at Christmas, they have, they have little pop up markets and outdoor areas where you can get beverages and buy merchandise and things like that. So I like the flexibility to have a real engaging area for the community to participate in. And the fact that a bar and lounge cannot have outdoor amplified music means I'm not even concerned about that patio ever getting loud. So, uh, the up door, uh, the, uh, the, uh, the up door upstairs, um, patio area. So anyway, uh, I'm, I'm really excited about this and I hope you do approve it cause I want them to have the flexibility. I think it's highly unlikely that you're going to get 15 bars lined up in a row there. You just, they can't keep enough people in the bars and seventh avenue as it is anyway. So I just think, uh, economy is going to drive a variety in these spaces just naturally. So that's my thought. Um, thank you very much. Thank you very much. Is there anybody else in the public who wish to speak to this item? Come on up. Start with your name, please. Hi, good evening council. Christian Leon 2010. He's Pond Ave. Um, I understand the concerns, uh, Charlie. I love that you brought up the Tropicana. My parents used to take me all the time. That was like a thing growing up. So that was a good memory for me too. Um, councilwoman her tech. I totally understand your concerns. Um, but what I want to take advantage is I want to take advantage of the moment to speak on behalf of the thousands of people who want to find a place to enjoy and to be able to go out in Tampa and have nights out. And I think that we have to think not only about the residents. I get it. And I understand that there is one perspective of a type of resident that you're concerned about. I grew up in Carolwood. There are people that live in Carolwood. It's a, I love Carolwood so much. You know, that's my place. However, I think it would be a huge disservice to the city of Tampa to make every neighborhood like Carolwood and Ybor should not be like Carolwood. I think that we have to think differently. And I think that we have to take advantage of the opportunity that we have this beautiful development that's going on, which brings a lot to the table. Like we need more pedestrian walkways, right? It's a great place to go. You're free of cars. You don't have to worry about anything. You can flow freely. We don't, I think for years, we didn't have rooftop bars in Tampa, which I never understood because after being in Boston for 10 years and then coming back here and living through winters, you know, like November would come around and I'm like, why can't we sit around anywhere? And I would go to like Red Mesa and St. Pete to be in the little terrace to be able to sit outside and have a nice meal. And we couldn't do that in Tampa. For a long time, we couldn't have food trucks in Tampa. And I thought that that was weird until finally the culture changed and we were kind of behind the ball on that one. Um, I think on this one, we really have to think about the direction that we want to allow Tampa to go. And I think that there is a need for vibrancy. And I think that vibrancy drives economies and drive cities forward. If you ever think about the cities that are relevant that we talk about are the cities that are vibrant, you know, in the national lexicon, it's been, it's been, um, Nashville. It's been Austin. It's been places that are vibrant and we need space in Tampa that's vibrant. So please take that into consideration. Uh, when you do this, I think that we can tweak things if there's concerns later on, but I think to try to clamp everything down would be, uh, would not be the right move forward. Thank you very much. Anybody else in the public wish to speak to this item? Hearing none. Can I get a motion to close? A rebuttal. I'm sorry, rebuttal. Yeah. Rebuttal. Um, I just want to say, Damien and I were talking to the rest of Kettler. We're okay with midnight. If that eases some of your concerns, council member Carlson, um, instead of 1am. If, if not, then I don't know if we have a, I mean, I don't know if there's a consensus on council. Okay. The 1am. So, I mean, I haven't spoke about this issue. Let me, let me, let me, and then I'll give you a chance for a bottle after I speak. Um, I think that, I think what we're missing here is this is a planned development by one developer that is developing this area and all of these, for the most part, with a couple of exceptions, all the residents are buying into a known factor. So they know what they're getting into. So you're not going into an existing neighborhood and changing the use of something. This is a brand new neighborhood. This is a, this is a place being created for a very specific intent. So there's not going to be any surprises here. It's not like I, I owned a house in a residential neighborhood and all of a sudden they built a bar next to me. This is, this is, this is a very, very different. Again, it's a planned development. Um, it's also, it's a, I mean, I think we all understand how transformational it is. I mean, and you look at the examples that they brought up. Um, you know, we see the success of water street. We see, and we, and I just, I can imagine a vibrant neighborhood of having the diversity of, you know, and, and again, as a, as a, as a, someone who is controlling a plan development, that, that is a magic mix. Someone who is the leasing agent of that finding different pieces of that puzzle to make it all work that, I mean, that's part of the magic that they have to do. If they end up, if they overloaded it with what, you know, any type of business is not going to be successful. They have to create any kind of anybody that's in retail has to create a magic mix. And, uh, I think that's what you'd look for. Again, because this is a planned development of one developer coming in and making this whole thing happen. I think that gives us a lot of, uh, at least it gives me a lot of assurance that this is going to be one of the more successful neighborhoods in the city of Tampa. Anybody else? You guys want to hear that? Um, it's true that it's a planned development, but if something were to happen to the owners, they could piecemeal sell this off. So you can't just tell me it's a planned development. Like that's just not the way this works. So again, I'm not worried about current owners. I mean, they've shown that they're going to do good, that they've done good things, but you know, so did armature works. And now like literally this is a giant problem we have. So it's, and it's not even the music, it's the base. That's the biggest problem. Um, that's literally folks can hear it inside their houses. So that's my concern. I'm less concerned as long as we have the no single use bar lounge for the barrio market. I'm also not concerned about midnight. I'm, I think 1am is more appropriate. I still would like to see like no more than two thirds be bar lounge space. I mean, that would be more appropriate to me because again, it's great now, but the economy tomorrow could tank where, I mean, watch the stocks are going up and down crazy. We just don't know what's going to happen. And right now everything's pointing to an economic downturn. And as that economic downturn happens, you're just going to want to fill those spaces. And that's the concern. So yeah. Okay. Rebuttal. Sure. Um, this is a great discussion and I, I know that this is different and we just, we don't see too many large scale wet zonings. And so I just, I will keep it very brief, but you know, Councilman Clendenin, I think you hit the nail on the head. And that, you know, if we are resistant to large scale wet zonings, knowing that they carry a very measurable risk, then we don't end up with developments like midtown and we don't end up with developments like armature works, even though, you know, they come with their own set of issues and there's, there's always going to be complaints tied to them. Um, but then as a city, why we, you know, we're forfeiting places like water street and all of these districts that people love. And again, I understand that there's risk in this. And of course we, we can't predict the future, but you know, I, I don't want something that is so signature. And these developers who have done such a great job with transforming this district, um, to, you know, unfortunately be, you know, like minimized based on some future risk that we just, we don't have the ability to predict. So, um, that's all I have. If, if, you know, there are any other questions, just let me know. Damien, do you have anything further? Good. Okay. I think we're good. We have a motion to close to Councilman Maniscalco and a second for Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilman Miranda, would you like to read this? Special Use Permit, S-U-2 for alcohol beverage sales, large venue consumption on premise, package sales, off premise consumption, make it all for the sale of beverages regardless of alcohol content, beer, wine, and liquor at a certain lot, plot, or track of land located at 1301 East 4th Avenue, 1306 East 4th Avenue, 1302 East 2nd Avenue, 1315 East 5th Avenue, Tampa, Florida. More particularly described in section two, providing that all ordinances or parts of ordinances and conflict or repeal, providing an effective date along with the revision sheet. I have a motion. And including the no single use bar lounge for the barrio market. But that wasn't on the revision sheet. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought it was. No. Okay. I'm sorry. Say it again. So it's the no single use bar lounge for the barrio market, 28,000 square feet. As mentioned by my colleague. Perfect. We have a motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you. Second reading and adoption will be held on July 16th, 2026 at 10 AM at Old City Hall, located at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, third floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602. Thank you. Last item of business. Item number nine. You have 11 minutes. No. LaShawn Dock, Development Coordination. Thank you, Council. Item number nine. Our last item on the agenda is REZ 2628. And I'd like to show you the map. Normally I would list out the properties, the property addresses included in the rezoning request. But this is a large scale development. It consists of 55 parcels and it contains over 30 acres. So I just wanted to orient you and show you on this map the area contained within the project boundary. So the properties that are shaded in red are included in this rezoning request. So just to orient you, 19th Street is the western boundary. This is Palm Avenue. Further north you have I-4. You have 22nd Street running north-south here. East 6th Avenue is the southern boundary as you approach the eastern boundary of the project area. And then East 9th Avenue is here. And that's the northeastern, the boundary to the north for the northeastern boundary of the property area. So the request is to, I'll leave that up a second. The request is to rezone the property from YC-1, which is central commercial core, YC-2 residential, YC-4 mixed use redevelopment, YC-5 general commercial, YC-6 community commercial, YC-7 mixed use, YC-8 residential and IG industrial general to YC-9 site plan controlled and PDA plan development alternative. This is for a mixed use development. This would include commercial intensive uses and all residential types. So with that, I'll turn it over to Emily to give her report and I'll come back and give my report. Thank you. Emily Phelan Plain Commission staff. The site is within the central sample planning district. The parts of it are within the local historic district and the urban village. It's in within the historic Ybor and historic Ybor and Gary neighborhoods. Portions of it are within the coastal high hazard area and the site is within evacuation zones A, B, C, D, and E. This is an aerial of the subject site that LaShawn just had up. It includes all of these parcels in purple. The surrounding area is just a mix of uses with single family and multi-family to the north and commercial and office and light industrial uses to the south as you go towards Adamo. It has transitioned from light industrial to urban mixed use development pattern within recent years. This is the adopted future land use map. The subject site is within six future land use designations, the residential 20, the residential 50, the community commercial 35, which is all of the red, the community mixed use 35, which is the pink, the urban mixed use 60, and part of it is in light industrial. These designations allow for a variety of uses, densities, and intensities. This request would permit a master plan development mixed use of project within just up to 3 million square feet of residential development and all housing types and commercial intensive uses. Due to the site having all of those multiple flu designations, the applicant is utilizing land use policy 5.1.6 to blend the FAR and permitted uses across the entire site, which results in a 2.3 FAR consistent with the underlying future land use designations. The comprehensive plan directs the greatest share of growth to urban villages and areas served by transit, and the site is well served by transit, including Hart routes 5 and 9, and the Tico streetcar. The majority of the site is within an urban village, which supports increased housing supply and infill development on vacant or underutilized land. The portions of the site within the CMU 35, the CC 35, and the UMU 60 designations are within a mixed use corridor and subject to the mixed use centers and corridor policies. The design guidebook demonstrates consistency with these policies through design principles and the sub-area framework. The request supports the city's compact urban form strategy by providing transit supportive densities in a mix of uses and proximity to employment and transit. The design book reinforces urban design objectives through building placement, pedestrian network, and an active ground floor. The development is organized into four sub-areas, which responds to specific context and policy guidance. Overall, the proposed PDA is consistent with the comprehensive plan's direction related to mixed use centers and corridors, housing, compatibility, urban form, and design. Throughout the site plan review process, staff encourages the continued implementation of the design guidebook to ensure consistency with the comprehensive plan. That concludes my presentation. Thank you. Any questions? Hearing none. LaShawn? Thank you again, Counsel. LaShawn Dock, Development Coordination. I'm going to put the aerial map back up just to show you again the area under this request, under this rezoning, and also just to talk about the surrounding zonings that exist surrounding the property boundary. You can see that the majority of the parcels are within the YC special district, and you can see the mixture of the YC designations that exist, the YC1 along 22nd Street. You have more of your commercial core with the YC5 and YC6 designations. As you head further east, this dotted line is that boundary for the Ybor City District. Then you enter into your industrial zones. North of 6th Avenue, you have industrial general, the IG zoning that exists. And then south of 6th Avenue, you have the IH industrial heavy zone. That area has historically been industrial, and those uses are consistent with the underlying zoning. And I would like to just take a second just to explain the PDA. We don't receive the PDA rezoning request too often. But the PDA is a plan development alternative. You can do a plan development alternative if you have at least 20 acres of land or more. It anticipates phased development. And so mostly what comes before this council are PD rezonings, and you receive a site plan. It has the specific data regarding the property. You can see the building placement, parking placement, curb cuts, all of that detail on the PD site plan. On a PDA, it's a little different. You're provided an overall boundary, and there's a set of entitlements that are allowed within that boundary of that PDA. And as each phase is developed, the applicant or the developer must submit for incremental review. So you'll see within the staff report and also references to incremental review prior to permitting. So they must submit. That is an administrative review. That incremental site plan is compared to the overall entitlements granted in the PDA. And so at each phase of development for that incremental review, drawdown must be submitted to show the entitlements that are being requested in that particular phase and what entitlements are remaining for the specific categories. So that is the PDA. And so what you see before you what was submitted as a part of the site plan is something that looks like this. This shows the overall project boundary. And what has been done here is you can see the blocks that are labeled, and each block is identified with a letter, starting with the AA blocks on the west and transitioning over to block I to the eastern boundary. And so the data table that is a part of the site plan and the design book, they all reference a block, and this is the block that is associated with it, with that reference. But the residential types, there's a cap at 2,279 units. For office, there's 339,300 square feet. Commercial retail sales, there's 283,400 square feet. And hotel is proposed at 149 rooms. I just wanted to show you the entitlements chart. So this determines this is the overall set of entitlements for the development. As an incremental plan is submitted, a chart similar to this is submitted along with it, and it shows the drawdown where there is 20,000 square feet of office from the 339,300 square feet. One thing that's important to note is within the PDA boundary, tradeoffs are allowed in these entitlements. So the uses that are allowed within the development can trade off between the blocks, as long as it does not exceed the maximums that are listed within the entitlements chart. Also, although CI uses are allowed, there are certain CI uses that are prohibited with this request, and among them are cemetery, adult use, appliance and equipment repair, crematorium, dry cleaning plant, large and small, vermin control and related services. Those are prohibited uses, although the CI uses are allowed within the development. And the request also includes an associated design guidelines book. That book provides the details. This is regarding signage, parking, public realm, open space. All of those provide that framework for the development. And that's also been provided to you as a part of the site plan package. I have pictures of the site. I'm not going to show 55 pictures, Chairman. Thank you. As a matter of fact, I'll reduce it from this. I'm very grateful. So I would like to say I'm just going to show a couple of the boundaries. So this is the western boundary. As you know, some of the sites are occupied. Some of the parcels within the project area they have, they are occupied, and then others are vacant. But that's starting with the west boundary. This is on 19th Street also, that western boundary. And just to relate it, these are the block numbers also provided. That's looking west. That's block C4 heading towards the central portion of the project area. And that's looking west at block C5. This is on 7th Avenue, and that's looking east. This is looking west on 7th. We're near the center of the project area. This is the north boundary of the project area, almost to the northeast of block G4. And this is another view. I just tried to capture more than one parcel in the view. And then the last, I just went to the east, towards the eastern boundary. This is the industrial area in blocks HG and G. And there are two waivers with the request. The first waiver is section 27284.2.5. That's the request to remove five non-hazardous grand trees. And that will be shown on the two reasonable reconfigurations, and those will be due at the time of incremental site plan review and prior to permitting. The next waiver is to section 27284.4.1. And this is to reduce the minimum required tree retention percentage for a non-residential, non-wooded lot from 50% to 0%. And so with that, the DRC staff finds the request consistent. There are site plan modifications to be made. There's also a supplemental revision sheet which has been provided to you. Also, this property, given that parts of the property are in the YC district, it requires BLC review. At the time of the staff report, the BLC hearing had not been held where we had the recommendation from the BLC, and that occurred this week. So I have provided a copy of the BLC recommendation. And that supplemental revision sheet includes the changes and the conditions recommended from the BLC. The applicant has agreed to make those changes, and also I'd just like to let you know that we have Heather Bonds here. She is with Historic Preservation. And would you like to speak on the BLC funding? And she will speak on the BLC recommendation, but I'm available if you have any questions on the rezoning. Do you have questions on the rezoning councilor? I actually have questions about the revision sheet, so she's perfect. Okay. Come on up. Thank you. Start with your name, please. Heather Bonds, Assort and Preservation staff. Thank you. Reach it up just a little bit. There you go. Perfect. All right. Wow. That is loud. You are out of order. Go ahead. Go ahead. All right. This came before the BLC this past Tuesday, June 23rd. The BLC motion to recommend City Council approve this rezoning. They put several conditions as part of their review. I wanted to mention that the BLC does have the authorized power to review rezonings, and their recommendation is to the extent necessary to preserve the historical integrity and the appearance of the historic district. And with that intent in mind, they had 13 conditions. They had 13 conditions. I can read them and explain them if you'd prefer. We have them in front of us. Do you have them? Okay. I'm happy to answer any clarifications that you may have on any of those conditions. Councilwoman Hertha. So there are 13 conditions, but there are only 10 revisions. Yes. So I don't see, for example, the maximum permitted building height on block B8 shall be reduced from the current height limit of 60 feet to 45 feet. So where is that in the revision sheet? Yes. I can assist with that. Thank you so much. LaShawn Dock, Development Coordination. I would like to mention that this case was before the BLC on April 28th and May 5th. At that time, a favorable recommendation was provided. But then it was determined that the application was improperly noticed. So the applicant actually took the feedback from that, incorporated it into the final site plan that you have before you. So the site plan that is submitted of record actually incorporates some of those changes already. Okay. So what I did was I left foot remained. Okay. So I should have explained that. No, I appreciate it because I was like, hold on, because it looked mostly the same. They were proactive. They had it done. Thank you. I really appreciate it because I know that was important to the community, the feel that it connected. So I appreciate that. That's my only question. I want to thank the BLC on this. I think you guys did extraordinary work and you really brought a project up and really made it tremendously better. And I think that you guys did great work. So really express my gratitude to the BLC. It was a lot of collaborative work with the Apple Council. Thank you. Council Member. I did have one more question about this. And because it's a PDA and because it's in the historic district, when these changes come forward to staff, do they still need to go to the BLC for some of these approvals? Absolutely. For all new construction. But I wanted it to be on the record. That's why I asked the question. But thank you very much because I think that provides, again, a level of safety to the neighborhood to make sure that as this goes forward, it's not just one giant thing and they can build whatever. They still have to come to the barrio for the pieces within that district. So that is why I asked the question. I got it. Thank you very much. Applicant. We're already past my 706. Let's try to make 715. You guys are getting a break from me. You're getting obvious. Members, I'm going to start before she pulls this up. I'm going to try to keep these remarks fairly brief. We did have about six hours of hearings in front of the BLC, so I'm going to try to Start your name. Try to keep this short. My name is Avi Friedman-Shaw with the applicant Casa Ybor. As Alex mentioned, as LaShawn and Heather mentioned, we're asking to rezone approximately 30 acres primarily within East Ybor. That is primarily consists of the sheriff's office, which is today in Ybor about eight and a half acres, as well as some vacant underutilized industrial land, mostly along 7th Avenue going east from 22nd Street to about the cross town connector, the elevated highway. And we're asking to rezone to PDA. I want to thank the city staff. I want to thank the historic preservation department, as well as the BLC for the countless hours that they spent with us as the applicant to help fine tune this plan. So why are we coming before the council for a PDA versus just doing individual lot-by-lot zoning in Ybor, which is already pretty permissive? There's really just a few reasons. You know, East Ybor specifically has not seen a lot of development in the past 40 years since the YC zonings were put into place. A lot of it is vacant or underutilized. There's a lot of surface parking lots. Most of the sheriff's office is totally inaccessible to the public. 20th Street is closed off. Ninth Avenue was severed about 50 years ago. A PDA lets us do a few things. One is reconstruct the street grid. Two is require 10% open space and public amenities. Councilman Hertek, as you mentioned, for an earlier agenda item, that runs with the land. So even if we don't own all this in the future, it is a required component of this PDA to provide that public open space. One of the most important reasons is to centralize parking. Today, one of the biggest challenges in Ybor in developing is where do you put all the parking? It's in urban, tight lots. You know, everything is developed lot line to lot line. Being able to take those parking from individual lots and put them in a centralized place, allows that ground floor to be occupied by people and not by cars, by businesses. I'm just going to pause here really quickly. This is an image of 23rd Street and 7th Avenue looking west. One thing you'll notice is very wide sidewalks with street trees, furniture panels, and a continuation of that same 7th Avenue cadence you get elsewhere farther west. We had three key design principles. This is a conceptual rendering of what this would look like. Again, every single building is going to come back to the BLC for certificate appropriateness before it can get a building permit. That's every single building within the historic district. We really thought about contextual sensitivity. It's intended to mirror the existing cadence of Ybor, urban continuity. We're reopening the street grid, especially at 9th Avenue, which is closed. And then finally, we're prioritizing walkability in the pedestrian ground plane. As LaShawn mentioned, we divided this up into a few different sub-areas. You have the transit-oriented area next to this Tico streetcar, the 7th Avenue overlay district, which has more stringent regulations related to heights and setbacks because it's on 7th Avenue. That color in mauve, blocks C7, D7, G4, B8, and others, that's intended to have more moderate scale next to the neighborhoods. And finally, in blue, you have the non-historic sub-area, which is outside of the historic district. That's intended to provide a nice buffer from that elevated highway, which you can kind of see from most places in Ybor. The historic context, we have about 22 contributing structures within this PDA. Those will all be preserved. Any requests we would make to change those, that's all coming before the BLC. You know, that's not something we can do by right. We have specific block-by-block height limits for each of these individual blocks, again, which was approved by the BLC. I know that sometimes with PDAs, there's administrative height increase allowed. We're going ahead and barring that. That's not the intention. We're, you know, there's nothing to step to being done here. The building heights and setbacks, again, we spent a lot of time on this with the BLC. But in short, today in Ybor, you can build from 35 feet up to 60 feet. 60 feet is a YC6 zoning, and that's permitted in the southern portions of Ybor. We're keeping within that same envelope here. There's nothing that's going to be above that 60-foot height limit that you already see elsewhere in Ybor. Anything that reaches that 60-foot height limit, as you'll see from the diagram here, that top story is going to be set back from the street, which preserves that street wall and limits any of that visibility from the street. Parking, this is one of the biggest reasons we're doing this PDA. It's so you can park things centrally and not on individual blocks. I'm going to actually go back right here to this side. I'm going to point out four specific blocks, B3, B4, B8, and then D6. So it's kind of in the center. B3, B4, and B8 are in between 21st and 22nd. Two things you'll notice about those streets. They're one-way streets going north and south. Those are the exit ramps from the Selman to the south and the I-4 to the north. So the idea is to put centralized parking there to catch cars before they spread out into the neighborhood. You'll always have some need for ground floor parking in some of these buildings, folks with mobility challenges, folks pushing strollers. It's nice to be able to offer them parking right next to the elevator of their building, whether they're residents or employees. But we think that most people should be able to park in centralized garages and walk one or two blocks to wherever they need to go. D6 was the item you heard earlier about the vacating of that alley. That's really the perfect place to put parking because it's central to this PDA. It can park six other blocks around it. And two, that parking garage backs up to the CSX tracks to the south side of those CSX tracks. There's no historic casitas. There's no home. There's no one looking through the windows seeing the backslide of the parking garage. You can put the parking garage all the way to the back next to the CSX tracks. And on the north side on 7th Avenue, you have nice deep retail that's not affected by that parking garage. So that's why we asked for that vacating just on that one specific block. The public realm, this is really one of the other key reasons we're doing the PDA. This is, by the way, this is 26th Street and 7th Avenue. Right now, today on 7th Avenue, I actually have a photo of it. The bottom left, the bottom right picture, this is that same location. There's basically nothing there. There's a small pillar and a plaque that lets you know you're going to the historic district. We'd like to have a grander entrance to the historic district. On the other side of 7th Avenue, you have a nice big gate and overhang. We'd like to have some twin parks here. But in short, we'd like to do a few things for the public realm. One is just restore the street grid and public sidewalks. Two is add about three acres of public open space. We're requiring about three acres, 130,000 square feet across the PDA area. And just extend the walkable district eastward. Today, most visitors to the neighborhood think that the historic district ends at the Columbia restaurant. It doesn't. It ends about three blocks eastward. We'd like to continue that cadence. The streetscape improvements. We're proposing about a mile and a half of new streetscape improvements within the historic district. 75% of the new street trees other than on 7th Avenue, which will be palms to reflect that historic cadence, will be shade-producing type 1 trees. This was really important to us. When I walked down 7th Avenue for lunch, I have to cross the street to the south side because my face is getting blasted by the sun. So it would be nice to have some street trees producing an urban canopy and shade rather than just palms. We'll keep the palms on 7th Avenue. Parks and open space. I already mentioned this. There's a couple key spaces we've already staked out for potential parks on 8th Avenue, as well as those twin parks towards the end of 7th Avenue. And finally, this 9th Avenue Paseo. You see on the bottom left-hand corner, this is where the Sheriff's Office currently is. They take up a super block. We're going to go ahead and reopen that and create a wide pedestrian space. With retail shops, it'll be primarily pedestrian, but it'll be allowed for ground floor, outdoor dining, and things of that nature. So that's the high level of this plan. I'm happy to answer any other questions the council members have. Go into more detail for public comment, whatever you guys recommend. We have Q&A right now. Councilwoman Hertek? Sure. I'm really glad you talked about trees because that's the first thing I wrote. I was like, yes. Palm trees. Because, I mean, I understand that 7th Avenue is historic. I get it. But we are in unprecedented times of heat. I agree. I do believe that the time for palm trees has passed. I tend to agree. I respect the historic. I don't know if it's required for this. No. So it's not required for historic. So I would ask you to reconsider palm trees. Okay. And only because we're just getting hotter and hotter and hotter. And we want people to walk down 7th Avenue. I agree. Yeah. So just take that for what it's worth. Sure. Secondarily, on the east side, you end the Selman connector. Yes. The Selman connector under that is an absolute just wasted space and gem of what could be. And I really hope that you're working with Sia and FDOT to reimagine that space so that not only does it become more usable, it connects Gary back to Ybor. And which is something that neighborhood has been asking for for a long time. So I'm hoping that, and I mentioned it when we did the, I think, comp plan change for where the hospital is going to be. Yeah. But I felt the need to reiterate that here because it's so important. And to go back to the palm trees for a second, we spent our entire morning talking about trees. And there was someone from Ybor who specifically came to say, we want more shade trees. So it's a thing. Okay. My last thing, of course, is going to be bikes and bike storage parking for both residential and commercial, preferably protected, secure bike parking. Yes. Great. But, but, but also for, and that's, that's residential, but what about all the employees? Sure. Where can they find secure bike parking that also might possibly in one or two central locations include an area where they might be able to shower and get ready for the day? It's common in, in other large cities. It's what I'd like to see our city become as e-bikes become more prevalent and as parking becomes less, less of a, or a bigger concern. So that's one thing. That's, that's another thing I would like you to, to try to bring forward. Sure. Councilman. Councilwoman Hertak totally agree for any commercial buildings over 20,000 square feet. There is a onsite covered bikes, bicycle storage required. Any residential buildings, more than 15 units, same requirement. We have onsite required bicycle storage. There's other ways we're trying to incentivize car shares, scooters, bicycles. We don't like all the cars. We're trying to centralize that and take that off the, off the table as much as we can. Awesome. And, and, but that's what I would say for office use. Yeah. If, when you're building office space, have one or two, we, we put three in Hannah city center that are just bathrooms with showers. So people have a chance to clean up, um, after their bike ride into work and then they can store their stuff in their office. But you gotta, gotta be able to make it available to them. Yes, exactly. And so we're trying with the city. And so I'm trying to incentivize that, especially in office space moving forward. Um, but thank you. Thank you. Councilwoman. Okay. Very good. You complete your presentation. Does anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Come on up. Start with your name, please. Chris Voidovich, W O J T O W I C Z, 1508 North 20th street. I want to start by, uh, apologizing to councilman Clendenin for extending this meeting. And I want to thank councilwoman her tack for her stewardship of the district and taking very close look at this and asking excellent questions. Thank you. Um, just real quick, uh, just to give you context, every picture that they showed the map, my house is visible in that map. I live right in the kind of middle of where all of this is happening. My wife and I built that house 10 years ago. We've invested heavily in being residents of Ybor. We do not own any other properties or businesses in the district. We only just live here. We have one car between us and we drive 7,000 miles a year. We walk everywhere. I've walked every one of these blocks and they can all use a few things. One, uh, additional shade trees. Thank you very much. We definitely need that continuous sidewalks. Lots of sidewalks are missing and a place to go check out. Like right now there's just nothing there. We're talking about places inaccessible to public surface parking lots and vacant lots. Uh, I'm excited to see something interesting and walkable and fun in the district just to make it a better place to live. So my three key points about it. One walkability. You just heard about that. Uh, two, uh, density, uh, Ybor used to be a dense community. That means it had grocery stores that doctor's offices that cleaners that had all kinds of things that it doesn't have today because it doesn't support the density. And the third and final thing to make this quick is balance. Right now, Ybor city is tilted to the west because of the parking garages there and the investments to the west. The only thing in the east is the Columbia as mentioned. And if you, if you're at the Columbia restaurant and you walk out, you're doing one of two things. You're walking to your car or you're turning left. Let's give them a reason to turn right. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next speaker, please. Start with your name. Uh, Jose Kayon, 2402 East 11th Avenue. Um, piggyback on what Chris was saying, trees. Thank you. We definitely need shade trees in Ybor city. Um, I've been a resident of East Ybor for over 10 years. Some of you guys have come to our meetings. I have served in the neighborhood association for, uh, for about 10 years. Was a president or a neighborhood association for 10 years. Right now I serve as a treasurer. We're totally full in support of this new development. I worked really hard to bring alongside my board members and my, and our residents and neighbors to bring East Ybor to the map of the city, work alongside the police to clear the neighborhood, all the news that were mentioned before, prostitution, homeless camps. Honestly, I feel like East Ybor is the safest place to live in, in the city. I lived in Southampton for 15 years. I can leave my door unlocked if I wanted to. So this is just something else that residents have been waiting for, for over 60 years. I think this development is the third most exciting thing that has ever happened in East Ybor. First, the founding of this is the city. Second, not a good one, urban renewal. And now this, I mean, we live in a neighborhood that still looks like a war zone. Lots of empty lots. That's why we have 35 acres ready for development. You know, we have finally a developer that has proven to be sensitive to the historic roots of our neighborhood. A developer that has been working alongside a very strong neighborhood association to, you know, fix all the issues that we have. So we have a lot of faith on Daryl and the Casa Ybor team. It does not mean that we are not going to continue to work alongside him and you guys to make sure that we, even though we need some of the amenities that the West Ybor enjoys, we are going to be working alongside this development to make sure that we don't nightclubify just to make, you know, you know, East Ybor. I mean, we would love to have a downtown that is workable. We're looking forward to it. But, you know, we're definitely going to be looking at every single piece of this development and make sure that, you know, with the density, with everything, we achieve our dream of having a real neighborhood. I mean, we love to have people from visitors. We love to have people from Kerrwood. But residents have to be, you know, keep always in mind when anything is happening in our neighborhood. Thank you so much. And again, encourage to approve this. Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Start with your name. Hi, Christian Leon, 2010 East Palm Ave. Right now I'm speaking on behalf of the Tampa Bay Community Design Center. which is formerly CAD, the Center for Architecture and Design. So from the board, we just wanted to communicate. First of all, the board is made up of people who have had lifelong experience advocating for good community design and for historic preservation and a lot of the things that I know each of you hold dearly and really, especially in this project, you really want to make sure those values are taken into consideration. And before the meetings with the Barrio Latino, with the BLC, there was a lot of conversation back and forth with the developer to make sure that a lot of points were addressed. So it's really refreshing to come tonight and to see the outcome of all of that work. I know that we've given thanks to the BLC for the work that they've done. And I think they really have been great stewards of the community. And I think that this is something that as a board, we feel very comfortable with. And we're really hopeful that this moves forward. And we're looking forward to see how this transforms the neighborhood for the good. So thank you very much. Very good. There are no others. Can I get a motion to close? Do you have a rebuttal? We'll leave the rebuttal. Thanks. Okay. Motion to close to Councilman Vera. Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilman Carlson, I believe we're with you. Yeah, I just want to say one thing real fast before we go. We probably approve 98% of the real estate projects we look at. But the few that we don't, the developers always complain and blame city council. And there's a right way and wrong way of engaging with the community. And I just want to point out the reason why there's no opposition here is not because of the proposal itself. It's because, uh, Daryl Shaw and, uh, and Avi and others have spent months, but it's, but even years meeting with every single person in the community to, so they deeply understand this. If every developer did that, we could approve a hundred percent. Um, I'd like to make a motion to, for number nine, final number RZ 26 dash 28 ordinance being presented for first reading consideration ordinance. Rezoning a total of 55 parcels of which 38 parcels are located in the Edward city historic district consisting of plus 30.64 acres located generally in an area bounded to the North by East 11th Avenue to the East by the Selma connector. And the CSX right away to the South by East 4th, um, Avenue and to the West by North 19th street property in the city of Tampa, Florida, and more particularly ascribed in section one from zoning district classification. Zoning district classification IG into industrial general YC one central commercial core YC two residential YC four mixed use development YC five general commercial YC six community commercial YC seven mixed use. And YC eight residential to PD a plan development, alternative mixed use commercial intensive uses and residential all types. And YC nine site plan control providing effective data. I have them and the revision. I have a motion from Councilman Carlson, a second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Congratulations. Second reading and adoption will be held on July 16th, 2026 at 10 a.m. at old city hall located at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, third floor, Tampa, Florida, three, three, six, zero, two. Okay. Thank you very much. Um, miss miss doc. I have a, uh, quick, um, comment for you on, on you create, you and your team create such wonderful, um, staff reports. I was just thinking that maybe for the alcohol ones that we could add, we could add a section for just hours of operation. Sure. And then a section for amplified noise and hours, just so that as we go in, we can see it because you always have the square footage and all of that. So just a little. Yeah. A section with the hours of operations and a section. Yeah. So, so, you know, in the beginning you always have that nice, um, uh, chart. And so maybe just another couple lines on that chart. Absolutely. Just because I think it would really help all of us like right away. Yes. No. Um, cause the site plan can be very hard to read. Uh, agreed. When we're reading it on the computer. So. And now we embedded in a paragraph somewhere. Yeah. So that would be great. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay. Very good. Well, we've worked together on, on these before and her team does a phenomenal job. You have great ideas. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Very good. And to the Shaw's that are still in the room. Congratulations, Mr. and Mr. Shaw. Yeah. Very good. Congratulations. Okay. Um, that concludes our regularly scheduled program this evening. We're down to new business. Councilman Carlson. I want to make a couple of quick comments and then throw out an idea. Um, one is, uh, a former employee told me recently that as this employee was leaving, HR, uh, told them that they were not allowed to contact city council in any way for two years. And that, if it's true, that really, I assume it's true because somebody reliable told me this, but, um, if, if, if there's a prohibition against lobbying or representing business in front of the city, but I, it, it, it bothers me that if employees are being told, they can't contact us in any way. And so I just want to throw that out there. The second one is that, um, I think I can make a motion about this. If you guys like it or not, but I think that there should be some kind of immunity given to employees who speak, uh, at city council meetings. The, the mere fact is speaking out at a city council meeting should not cause somebody to get fired. Um, you guys can think of, but if you're in favor of it, I can make a motion. If you, if you aren't, I can hold onto it. We can talk about later. But, um, I don't like it that HR others are, are, there are allegations that people have been fired or threatened to be fired for speaking at city council. And, uh, city council can't directly get involved in administrative efforts. But I think employees just like anybody else have the right to speak in front of city council. They should be able to lower protections. Yeah, but it's, we've been through that with special sessions. And just like the chief of staff said a couple of weeks ago, there's no verified evidence of retaliation. We know there's lots of retaliation. And so, uh, just because somebody signs a settlement doesn't mean that retaliation didn't happen. So let me ask you this. Was that a motion? Yeah. I'd like to make a motion to, um, have staff come back with a, a draft, uh, a draft ordinance or some kind of document for discussion on September 3rd, um, September. Yes. September 17th to discuss, um, providing immunity for, uh, employees who wish to speak out at public comment as a motion for councilman Carlson. Is there a second? May I speak? Yes. Thank you. I'm over here mumbling. Um, yeah, no, I'll, I'll, I'll second this under the guise that it's as a, would you, could you see if it's something that's viable? Uh, there's already whistleblower protections, all that stuff. But if that's something you want to discuss, I'm fine with that. I'll second it. I have a motion and a second discussion. Councilman Miranda. I, I think everyone who, whether you're dismissed or what has the right to come and speak, whatever it is. However, that individual, whoever he or she may be might've done something that was totally out of bounds and maybe they went to court and I, and settled. And I don't know what happened. So I don't want to create a worse problem for the taxpayers that I already have. If something happens, I'm not, I'm not questioning you at all, sir. But I just want to make sure that somewhere along the line, we get legal advice on what we can ask and not ask. If we know that something happened, that somebody got dismissed for some reason. And then they come here and then I'm going to make a motion. No, I'm not going to do that. Yeah, it's, I'll speak a little bit about based on my experience, especially in LMR and in the federal sector. As employees, if you, union representatives within the federal sector have protection based on the labor laws. So if they're an official representative of folks, but employees themselves, if they come and let's say they were libelous or they, or they, there's, there's things that you are accountable for what you do. And if they do something, if they undermine the, like there's, there's, there's different standards in the, in the management structure of, of how employees are managed. And like, let's say that you're in the financial sector of, of the city. And then you undermine these, if you come and you said something that would undermine our bond ratings or something like that. I mean, you are, you can't have, you can't have that happen with city employees. They have to be accountable for that kind of thing. Like they can't just maliciously come in and do something that would, without, without, without, without some kind of accountability. Yeah. My point is, is simply to say the mere fact of, of speaking at public comment, it, it, it, what, what they say after that, that's a, that's a different subject. But if they decide to speak at public comment, they shouldn't be threatened to be fired or fired because of that. Yeah. Mr. Shelby wanted to say something. Yes. Also there's the issue of, um, represented employees. Correct. Collective bargaining agreements. And the other thing is the question is whether somebody comes to city council on, during work hours, whether they're in a uniform or not. I mean, there are a lot of HR things. My suggestion would be if you feel strongly about it, then certainly, and I would recommend maybe you do it as a written report and see what their response is. And maybe perhaps if you like, meet with them individually, but get a written report and then council can assess whether they want to go further with that. Could you change that to a written report would you mind? Okay. You could. I'm, I'm suggesting it, but if you want an in-person report, that's council's discretion. We can start with the written report. Okay. Change it to a written report. Okay. We have a motion from Carlson, a second from councilman Vieira for a written report on September 17th. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you. I've listened to the majority of the charter review commission meetings and maybe some of you have as well. I've talked to more than half the charter review commission, many of them, your appointees. There are concerns about, about the way the facilitation is going. It seems to me, we've got like three or four meetings left. It seems to me that we should just let the chair run everything and, and that we don't need a facilitator. Um, but I'm not going to make a motion on that. I just throw that out there. We can talk about it when we get back. Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I just have, uh, three quick motions if I may. Yesterday I had the pleasure of meeting, uh, with our friends over at Bay Area Legal Services. And I was reminded on how we had passed, I think it was two years ago, a housing grant, um, for Bay Area Legal Services through the city of Tampa for representation on housing related legal challenges. And, uh, and that program apparently is still going on. So I wanted to, if I may do a motion for an in-person report from city staff to update us on the status of this representation program through Bay Area Legal Services. And before that time, they should inquire with Bay Area Legal Services on any, um, challenges that may exist within the program. Let's, we can put on the, um, agenda to limit this to 10 minutes for the entire, uh, scope of it, including council questions. This shouldn't be a long presentation. Five minutes from them. Five minutes from us. That's it. That's my intention. Uh, September 3rd. And we have a motion of councilman Vero second from councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Thank you. Council that this is housekeeping. I motion to remove from July 16th, the in-person staff report on the Mike Phillips, all abilities program. And on August 6th, where there is room in lieu of the previously scheduled written staff report, instead request that staff come before council and provide an in-person report on the all abilities program that day. That was from a request from staff, which I'm glad to accommodate. Okay. We have a motion from councilman Vero second from council Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Lastly, and I don't know how council feels about this, you know, with our ATU, um, is it 1593 or 1464? Which one is it? One's heart, whichever it is with our ATU, perhaps would it be proper appropriate for an administration update to speak about this? Is that again, I don't know what's going on. I see you wince. Yeah, I wouldn't go there. Okay. Then I shank. I shank. Just, just throwing it out there. Okay. That's it. Thank you guys. Okay. I have a motion. Um, I move to make a motion to provide a combination to Jamal Jefferson on August 27th, 2026 for receiving the Tampa Bay Buccaneers inspire change change maker award for his commitment to giving back to our youth and the next generation. Is that in person or in shouting? Um, yes, in council chambers. And I did check and move it to August 27th. We have a one presentation and one commendation. Yeah. And it, it won't be, um, long. With our new rules. With our new rules. Yes. I have a motion for councilwoman Young second councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. And, um, I, we, I kind of touched on it already, but, um, just for, you know, constituents that were wanting to know why we didn't talk about noise today. We moved them because we want to put everything on, um, you know, on one set agenda. Um, and just also, uh, you know, wanted to let community know that I understand your concerns of wanting to get, uh, you know, something resolved now. Um, and you have some that are experiencing, you know, these noises a little bit more than others. And so they're wanting to, you know, want to see some action, um, from, from the council, but wanted to just make sure that everything was put at one time. So we're not, you know, if we can cover everything at one time, then it, you know, it's more, it's better and, um, and more, um, efficient. Um, and then I also did express to, um, you know, staff that we do have community members that have been waiting for some time. And so just like, no, yes, I'm okay with pushing this back, but understand that there are people who have been waiting for some time. So I also just wanted to let them know that, um, you know, just, just so they know the timeline that people are waiting. And then also because you all are going to see me. So I have a couple of things. Um, well, one, uh, TOBA Leadership Institute has their, which I am a graduate of, they have their graduation on Saturday. And we're, um, so I will be there, um, speaking, and then we are also presenting accommodation to them, um, on the 16th for celebrating, um, celebrating seven, um, cohort classes. So I thought that was very exciting. And then also, um, Kentucky State University alumni had their conference here, and it is, uh, an HBCU, which is the Historic Black College University. And, um, when I went to, they had a reception, um, and talking to the organizers, and it was really nice to know that they specifically chose to come to Tampa. They wanted to come to Tampa. Um, and I know that you remember if there was a time where there was a lot of things that were happening in our area, and there were a lot of, um, you know, there was, um, letters are put out, like, you know, from, you know, national NAACP, like, don't come to Tampa, don't come to, because there was a lot of things that was happening here in the area. And they said, you know what, we know that that's happening, but there's still a lot of, you know, black and brown businesses that we want to support in Tampa, so we want to come anyway. And so they specifically chose to come to Tampa. And so I just thought that was really nice, just, you know, people are really recognizing Tampa and want to come here. So that's all. Very good. Thank you. Councilwoman Young. I forgot, Mr. Chairman, one last. It's not a motion. It's one thing. I forgot. If I may, thank you. I think, did y'all get the email from my office on Roy Caldwood in that event on the 30th? So I just wanted to, it just, this guy's turning 104. He's the, if y'all ever saw that Spike Lee movie, Miracle of Santa Anna, I think it's called in the 92nd Regimen of Buffalo Solomon. In Italy, this guy's turning 104, decorated World War II veteran, got the bronze star in Italy. He's originally from Harlem, 104 years old, and we're honoring him there for the 4th of July. So he's an awesome guy. So come on down to the People's Republic of New Tampa. I'm never going to make it to 104. Why not? I hope not. I absolutely hope not. I mean, bless him. I think it's wonderful, but that is not something I want for myself. So first of all, I really just, I want to say, I mean, I sent this out to News for Neighborhoods, the newsletter that I send out, but I wanted to make sure people know that watering restrictions are still around. There is a way that you can actually contact the water department if you see people watering at noon, because I wanted to know, I've seen, like, it's crazy. Do not water after 6 a.m. That's 4 a.m. I'm sorry. The new rules are you cannot water after 4 a.m. And you cannot water until 8 p.m. So make sure you're watering on your day. If you don't know what your day is, go to the water website and you should be able to find that. But please, we haven't had to buy any water yet, but we're very close to it. And that means your water bills will have to go up. So my motion today is I worked with staff on this, and this is a Social Action Arts Fund grant motion. So I have a motion requesting staff in coordination with the City Council Budget Analyst to meet individually with each council member to discuss possible improvements to Social Action and Arts Fund program to include how to align the funding with City of Tampa goals or identified areas of need, how to focus on community outcomes and measurable goals, and lastly, to include a program that teaches how to seek outside grants and transition from the Social Action Art Funds to other funding sources. Thank you. Further, I request staff to compile the feedback and return to City Council on August 6, 2026, under Staff Reports with a summary and preliminary list of three to five administrative areas of identified areas of need, unmet goals, or impact areas. Sorry. So the reason I did this motion is because I met with Janelle, and we are still trying to figure out what to do. And so one of the ideas was if we have, we're just going to hope that we can find $1.5 million this year, and if we do that, if we choose an area that the administration says is an area of need, unmet goals, and impact, say, you know, teen events, because right now we've got the whole teen takeover thing going on, but we've done a really good job with providing activities, but maybe that's our focus. So the half million dollars goes toward that, and then the two-thirds leftover goes toward other areas right now, and then next year it's that $500,000 to teens and $500,000 to something new, and then slowly over time those teen organizations would have three years of funding, but during that time get grant help to learn how to seek outside funding sources, so that by the time their three years is up, they can move on and find what they need. Okay, I have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtag and second from Councilman Mataskalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Ayes have it. Next. That's it. Aye. Aye. Aye. Councilman Mataskalco. Yes, I would like to wish my wife a happy birthday. It's tomorrow. As you know, she is the perfect woman, and I just wanted to acknowledge that and wish her a happy early birthday. That's it. Thank you. Councilman Miranda. Well, sir, I'm going to talk about water like Ms. Hurtag did, Lady Hurtag, and we have increased our water demand from 80.3 million gallons a day to 82.8 million gallons a day or 2.5 million gallons a day more. We cannot sustain that because we have no water raining on a constant basis every day, and we're going to have a problem if we continue using more water than we have every day in the last four or five weeks. So it's something that we have to learn to live with. I know it's difficult, but you don't have to take an hour shower. Ten minutes will be enough. If you use soap. If you use soap. Thank you, Councilman. Thank you, Councilman Miranda. That's it, sir. Okay. Councilwoman Hurtag? Yes, Chair Clendenin. First, I believe that we have someone that is kind of a birthday coming up. When is your birthday, Councilwoman Hurtag? July 1st. Center of the year. So we will be on break during Councilwoman Hurtag. So I will say happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, Councilwoman Hurtag. Happy birthday to you. Thank you. I hope you don't live to be 104. Me either. Me either. That's a great wish. 106 would be all right. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Okay, I have one motion. I have an email from Emily of the Planning Commission. A motion to request the Planning Commission set an adoption hearing for TACPA 2603 on September 24, 2026 at 5.01 p.m. and direct the legal department to provide the city clerk with a form of notice for advertising the public hearing. Just FYI, this is the HC property. Okay, so I have a motion from Councilmember, I'm sorry, Chair Clendenin. I have a second from. Oh, okay. So I have a second from Councilman Vieira. Okay. So, yeah, this is this is a tricky one. Well, we'll see what happens here. Do I need to do a roll call vote for this? Let me ask a question. When do we hear back from the state? When is it? As we're spending in the state. This is because the schedules are full. This is an AB trying to get something on reserving a spot for it, basically. But there's no guarantee that this is even heard. Is even heard at that time. I'm working with Emily, LaShawn, everybody else. That's what was the meeting we had prior to the meeting that they felt like this was an appropriate date. Is this typically done like this? Because it's so busy or full or what's the reason? I mean, every every one of our calendar dates are full. Okay. So that's it. That's the issue. Okay. So do we want to have a roll call vote for this? Yeah, we're good. Let's roll call this. No, I'm sorry. I have a motion from Chair Clendenin. This is just set the hearing. I understand that, but I still feel like we're going to need that. And then a second from Councilman Villar. But again, I just, this is a, this is just setting. This is not a decision point. This is just setting the hearing. Before that. Okay. Council. Put your mic on. I'm one of them guys that read for whatever reason. I get attacked through the news and the paper. But more than that, I look at every one ad in the paper for whatever reason, since I was about 10 years old. And I read them all. And about a week and a half ago, I was reading one regarding the water permit that they wanted applied at Swift Mud on March, I think March or February of 25. I forget what date it was at toward the end of the month for applying for with Swift Mud to give permission for a pre-construction operation, I guess, at the plant at what we're discussing now. But I'm not going to mention any names. Okay. Anyone else? It's anyone. I mean, do we need to do a roll call? Is anyone concerned about putting this on the agenda? Okay. So all in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Well, there you go. And that's it. I want to wish everybody a happy vacation. Remind the public that we will not be back until July 16, 2026. Happy 250th birthday to the United States of America. Let's hope we live to see 251. And Mr. Shelby. I was going to say, in case nobody did, I wanted to make sure that I just wanted to remind the public that if they show up for the next two Thursdays, you won't be here. We won't be here. Enjoy your time in City Hall without us. And again, by the way, it took me a while, but I just wanted to know. Motion to receive and file. Motion to receive and file. Motion to receive and file. I have a motion to receive and file from Councilwoman Hurtax, September Councilwoman Miranda. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Yes, sir. Happy semi-quincentennial. There you go. Very good. Okay. We are adjourned. Thank you.