Davis Islands Neighborhood Planning Task ForceWorking Meeting Minutes Present: Dennis Cavanaugh, Lee Medart, Gary Brown, Renae Tvedt, Shelia Spicola, Lisa DeVitto, Renee Meehan, Pam Tayon, Scott Jorgensen, Gerry Smelt, Shirley Mora and Jeffrey Siewert. Planning Commission Advisor: Rose Petrucha. Guest: Mary Helen Duke, AICP City of Tampa Greenways & Trails coordinator Absent: Charner Reese, Lorraine Smith, Phyllis Pacyna Call to OrderMeeting was called to order at 6:35 pm. Quorum was noted. Chair reported that the last three meetings that we had in November, 2003 discussing the Vision statement to be presented, had not typed up into minutes. She asked if anyone objected to her not writing up minutes to those meetings. There were no objections. The Chair introduced Scott Jorgensen and Mary Helen Duke. The Chair noted to everyone that they should have half of a ticket with numbers on it because we were going to draw for a prize at later in the meeting. Unfinished BusinessThe Chair had given 3 comments sheets to everyone to be read out loud and discussed by the Task Force. In addition, the Chair gave each person a hard copy of the article she had written for DI News listing the major disagreement comments that had be received by December 20th so that each person could take home with them some listing of the comments. The Task Force spent about an hour reviewing the comments from the VISION open house as well as from the DI news returns (a total of 30 responses) and found that there was very little new information that had not been reported previously except for perhaps air quality and private land owner rights on the Islands. Rose cautioned us that we need to be aware when we start putting the plan together we consider the concerns we’ve heard about property rights. Rose is to keep the original comments as she also has the others that have been received. New BusinessThe Chair asked Shirley Mora to tell the Task Force about the notification from the City on a citywide survey on Recreation. Shirley reported that she had requested 300 hard copies of the survey to pass around. The Chair reported that the NEAT organization wants to meet with Homeowners Associations before actual clean up day so they know what the priorities of clean-up are on the Islands. The Chair forwarded the email to Dennis Cassedy, as she felt that we were sent the email inadvertently but Shelly Blood was asked by the Chair to keep us on their email list so that we could meet with them when they meet with the DICA. Drawings were made for the prizes (Rose indicated the prize was more work!). The winners were Lisa, Jeffrey and Scott. The prizes were Islands Fest t-shirts from 2 years ago. The Chair asked Lisa whether she had been able to find anything on CIP fund. She responded that she was confused as to what she was looking for. Gerry suggested that there were several funds for development but that we would not be eligible for those available. Activist WorkshopThe Chair reported that she attended an Activist Workshop at USF. What she learned there was that we are now getting into getting the PLAN adopted as if we were running a campaign. An example given was … people are saying that there is too much speed on the Islands… But where we are going is to give options for calming speed… when we do that we’re going to hear from the residents – no I don’t want speed bumps; nor stop signs, etc. What we need to start thinking in our own minds is that as we start putting this Plan together, is that we are running a campaign to get our PLAN elected. Organization ChartShe explained her organization chart that had been emailed to the Task Force. The Chart broke the Task Force into 4 sections/areas. In this way we might be able to address the thousands of inputs we’ve received over the 2 years. She listed those VISION headings under each of the areas, some duplicated in more than one area to be addressed from each of the area’s point of view. Scott suggested that we should have an overall outline of a plan so that when each of the groups get together, they will have an overall vision of what pieces should be included in the plan. Jeffrey suggested that he had about 2 copies of Madeira Beach plan and perhaps we could use that as our guideline. It was generally agreed that we’d like to look at the Madeira Beach plan as a guideline putting together our plan. Gary suggested that we use the Topics and Sub-topics as suggested on the chart that the Chair sent out. There were no objections to the way the Chair had organized them with the people as Co-Chair or what was suggested as organization of the many inputs we had. The Chair explained that each Co-Chair would elaborate on the parts of the VISION that their section will address. The Chair explained that each Co-Chair would look at the various VISION items from the perspective of the Area that they will be addressing it. If you’re Residential then you look at the items from a Residential perspective. If you’re Commercial, you address it from a Commercial perspective. It might be the same thing but you’re looking at it differently because if it is from a business perspective. Then look at and approximate how much we need to get done and when can we compete it so we can get an overall timeline on finishing the plan. We also need to see how often we are going to meet to get this done. Someone asked what the overall timeframe was and the Chair answered November 20, 2004. Plan DiscussionGerry asked that when we present this to City Council is it something that are tools leading to implementation? The answer was yes. Then we would use the Traffic Calming Study as a tool so we don’t get caught up in the minutia on how are we going to get the money for it, etc. There was discussion on people wanted to see some solutions in the plan without fact-finding. Gerry suggested that we could do it both ways. For instance, the corner needs to be curved out on Adalia just as it’s been done on West Davis. It doesn’t require a traffic study to know that. Rose suggested that we don’t need to get down to specific decisions but rather provide possible options. Lisa suggested that our plan doesn’t have to propose specific items but rather options such as Tampa Heights did. Rose remarked that we need to keep in mind that we have to get community approval before it gets to City Council, so we need to keep in mind that what we’re aiming for is approval from the community. The PLAN is to give guidance that your community has bought into. It was agreed. Rose explained that as in Tampa Heights they were reticence in specifically saying how a certain piece of property was going to be done because they realized that more dialogue was needed to get to the specifics of how that property was going together. She suggested that we wanted to get the plan somewhere between being so specific but to give areas that need attention so that we can get it approved. The Chair suggested that we have focus groups during the implementation of the plan so that we can get feedback from the community on what is thought about the various options that we’ve come up with. Gary agreed and there were no objections from the Task Force. It was suggested by Renee Meehan that we meet once a month in our subgroups and once a month in our Task Force. There were no objections. The Task Force members present indicated which areas they wanted to be party to. Lisa suggested that we need a VISION statement at Java & Cream for people to look at and a sign up sheet for volunteers. The Chair agreed and said that she was working with Rose to get copies done. The Chair would be responsible for getting a signup sheet and comments sheets. Land Use MapThe Chair asked Mary Helen if she wanted to present something to the Task Force and she showed the map that was adopted by the Council at public meetings sometime ago. If you don’t want what’s been approved, the greenways committee meets bi-monthly and they are going to be updating the overall greenways master plan and she recommended that someone from our group meet with the greenways committee and inform them as to the changes in the greenways perspective of this group. The greenways advisory group can make a recommendation to City Council and so we could take the concept plan and take that to the advisory committee for changes. Rose asked what their time factor as to the update to the greenways plan? She answered that approximately 1 to 1.5 years. Gary asked about whom from Davis Islands is on the Advisory Group and Mary Helen stated that Charner Reese is on that group so she could be our representative. Gary suggested to Mary Helen that we aren’t trying to slow things down just because we are in the process but we would like to make sure that when an issue comes up that they come here first. Lisa suggested that we send them a letter letting them know that we are here working on a plan that includes a recreation greenway. Mary Helen suggested that we let the DICA know that we are working on a plan. Mary Helen suggested to Gary’s comment that we’ve met with the Mayor and she answered that the recreations department has been working on this for 15 years in development of a comprehensive plan and she would be willing to come back to us and give us a whole greenways system as it relates to the comprehensive plan. She indicated that she did not honestly know who to call in regards to this item on Davis Islands. After input from Lisa, Mary Helen asked if we would like our group to be informed as to what is happening with the greenways system? The answer was yes, and the Chair asked if she had her email address. Gary suggested that Charner should write that letter, to herself actually. Gary also stated that DICA board is doing their thing, which is fine, but they don’t have the whole plan for the greenways but only a part, which is the South Davis part. We don’t report to them and they don’t report to us. The Chair suggested to Helen that Charner would probably contact her. The Chair went back to assigning the remaining task force to the areas. Gary brought up that it appears that the City is not backing us in creating a PLAN as DICA is asking or demanding that the City to appropriate monies for a portion of the VISION map at the meeting that Charner, Lee and I were at without concern for where we are at in devising a Plan. Gary suggested as a motion that as we move into this next phase of dividing up into these committees, that we make the Chair DICA board liaison person. With much discussion it was decided and the Chair agreed with backup from the Task Force members that she would be at each board meeting of DICA and keep them updated on where we were going. Meeting AdjournedThe meeting was adjourned and it was decided that we would accept Renee’s suggestion of having two meetings per month; one for the area and one for the whole Task Force. Rose handed out newspapers of the Comprehensive Plan update meetings and asked that we be present. Next Meeting(s) Meeting was adjourned at 8:40pm. |
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