The Local Planning Agency (LPA) met on April 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM to consider two major agenda items: a development agreement for a 78-unit affordable housing project and a voluntary contraction (de-annexation) of a 0.70-acre parcel. The meeting included unanimous approval of prior minutes, public testimony on the housing project, and votes on both ordinances recommending action to the City Commission.
The 9th, no, I'm sorry, the April 9th 2025 meeting of the local planning agency of the City of Dunedin will now come to order. The local planning agency is an advisory board of citizens appointed by the city commission. This board is composed of volunteers who represent the thoughts and concerns of the community. And I appreciate that you all should show it up this evening. Thank you. The purpose of tonight's meeting is to make recommendations to the city commission regarding each item on the agenda. Everyone in the audience who wishes to test to give testimony to any items on the agenda will need to be sworn in by the deputy city clerk. Citizens speaking on an agenda item or during citizen comment will not engage in loud, boisterous or disruptive speech or conduct. Any speaker that is continued inappropriate or irrelevant comments will be requested to relinquish the podium by the chair. That's me. Please be aware that the local planning agency is not a quasi judicial board and therefore has no final decision making power. Our procedures, however, are structured in a quasijudicial manner for the benefit of those who come before it. Tonight's format will be as follows. I will introduce each item on the agenda, after which the city representative will present information about it. Thereafter, the members of the local planning agency will ask any questions of the city representative. Finally, anyone from the public may come forward. Those from the public wishing to give testimony will need to approach the dais, state their name and address, and then utilize the speaker's lecture in order for their comments to be recorded. Individual speakers would be limited to three minutes of speaking time, and we kindly request that speakers are respectful of the clock count dial. Upon conclusion of each public hearing, the local planning agency will consider the evidence before it and vote on the agenda item. The voice vote is the rendition of the order of the board, and there will be no written decision issued by the board. The first item on the agenda tonight is to approve the March 12th, 2025 LPA minutes. Are there any corrections, additions, or deletions to the minutes? Hearing none, do I hear a motion to accept the meeting? Minutes as submitted. So move. Second. Thank you. The minutes stand okay. All those in favor signify by aye. Aye. Thank you. The minutes stand approved as submitted. The deputy clerk will now swear in persons wishing to speak to or give testimony to any of tonight's agenda items. Please raise your right hand. Do you swear the testimony you're about to give in this proceeding is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Thank you. Thank you very much. The second item on the agenda is ordinance 25-01, authorizing approving and authorizing the execution of the development agreement for the city of Dunedin and the flats on Main Street LLC for the FLAX on Main Street project at 1422 Carnation Drive. Anyone any had exporte communications regarding this ordinance? No. Thank you. Stafford Thank you, Chair Broom, members of the board, George Kinney, on behalf of the community development department and to my left. I'm blessed here to this evening to have uh our economic development director, Bob Ironsmith with me as well. Um so I'm gonna just walk you through this quickly. I'll be fairly brief. This is a development agreement request. Um, as you probably know, the development agreement is one of two parts to the process. There is the development agreement piece to uh to a larger development such as this, and then there is a design review, which will follow. So the board will have not only a look tonight at the development agreement, but a look at the design review when it comes when it comes forward uh in the future. Um the city commission authorized the city manager to enter into negotiations for this development agreement back in February.