No, no, no, no.

Okay.

Looks like we're getting ready to recall.

Good afternoon.

This meeting of the community development board is called to order at one PM on February 19th.

Um, welcome everyone.

Please stand and join us in invocation and pledge followed by the Pledge of Allegiance.

All right.

Dear Lord, thank you for this day in the safe passage to this meeting for everyone that's in this room.

Please help us all to listen intently to all the discussion that is going to be put before this board, and that to use good discernment in making our decisions going forward in this in all of our decisions that we make today.

Amen.

I am Michael Gutskis, and I will ask the other members in the staff to do this off the beginning on my left.

Andrew Hop.

Please remember, turn off your cell phone so that it does not become a distraction during the meeting.

Please also refrain from having conversations in this room so that we might hear all the testimony given today.

Now I will ask all those in attendance today who plan to speak to please rise and be sworn in by the clerk.

Yes.

Agendas of today's meeting are on the podium to your left near the entry door.

Also on this podium are our officer of the community development board, the list of city staff experts and their resumes, the board's rules of procedure, and the annual schedule of this board.

Our first order of business is to review and approve the minutes from last month's meeting.

May I have a motion for approval of the minutes?

I make a motion to approve the minutes from last month's meeting.

Second, second.

Motion made and second.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Motion carries.

Is there any person here today wishing to address the board concerning any matter that does not appear on today's agenda?

Seeing none.

This board has adopted a consent agenda format and the consent items are identified as such on the agenda.

Consent agenda items are those items for which the planning and development department recommends approval and the applicant is in agreement with any proposed conditions.

Please note that written comments to the case that have been received to date do not result in any item being removed from the consent agenda.

Items may be removed from the consent agenda today by a member of the board, a member of the staff, or any person in the audience for questions or objections.

I'll read each item on the consent agenda.

And if any person wishes to remove this item from the consent agenda, please so state or raise your hand and we will remove it from the consent agenda.

Items removed from the consent agenda will be heard in the regular order of the meeting.

Items that remain in the consent agenda will be approved in a single vote as to each type of hearing.

Our items on the consent agenda today are as follows.

Next item is CPA 2025-10001.

Comprehensive plan amendments to establish new planned redevelopment district overlay future land use category with associated bonuses and incorporate policies for a new North Greenwood community overlay district.

Is there anybody who would like this item removed from the consent agenda?

See none.

Move on.

LUP2025-1105.

City initiated amendment to the future land use map to apply a new plan to redevelopment district overlay to the area encompassing the North Greenwood CRA boundary, with the exception of the area comprising the old Bay Character District of Downtown, which is designated a central business district.

Any properties designated as water preservation or recreation open space on the city's future land use map.

Is there anybody who would like this matter removed from the consent agenda?

Seeing none, uh see.

Matters two and three were level three.

The other one was item uh 4.1 was level two.

So let's have two separate motions on that.

Does anybody want to make a motion on the level two item for the consent agenda?

What about ex parte?

Pardon me.

Ex parte, do we want to ask?

Does any board member wish to disclose any expartly communications on any level two application remaining on the consent agenda?

None.

Okay.

Do I have a motion on FLD 2025-11028?

I move to approve case FLD 2025-11028 on today's consent agenda based on the evidence in the record, including the application and the staff reports, and hereby adopting the findings of fact and conclusions of law stated in the staff reports with the conditions of approval as listed.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Motion made and second.

Is there any discussion?

There being none.

All in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Motion carries unanimously.

Uh the next two items are level three.

Can I have a motion on those items?

I move to recommend approval of case numbers CPA 2025-10001 and LP L UP 2025-11005 on today's consent agenda based on the evidence of the record, including the application and the staff report, and hereby adopt the findings of fact and conclusions of law stated in the staff reports with the conditions of approval listed.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Motion made and second.

Is there any discussion?

Here being none, all in favor say aye.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Motion carries unanimously.

That concludes the hearings that we have for today.

Going back to our agenda format.

Um, is there anything from the director's report?

Um, I would just like to um introduce our new long-range planning manager, Marcy Stenmark.

I'll let her say a brief little bit about herself since the meeting's gone by so quickly.

But it's great to have her on board and she'll be presenting in front of you over the upcoming years.

Thank you very much.

Uh so it's very it's wonderful to be with you today.

Uh my name is Marcy Stenmark.

I'm a certified planner with over 25 years of planning experience.

Um, my last uh work uh responsibility in Pinellas County was I was a community development director for the city of Safety Harbor, where I oversaw uh planning code enforcement and also uh the permitting operations.

And that was a really exciting time.

And during that time I got to come to Clearwater quite a bit, and I I've always loved Clearwater.

I'm very happy to be here and be part of the team, and I look forward to working with all of you.

Welcome.

Pleasure to meet you and welcome aboard.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Anything else?

That's it.

Thank you very much.

Okay.

Do any board members have any matters they wish to be heard on?

Seeing none, that concludes our business for today.

And I didn't even rush it, Ms.

Doen.

Thank you, everybody.