Davis Islands Neighborhood Planning Task ForceWorking Meeting Minutes Present: Dennis Cavanaugh, Charner Reese, Lee Medart, Gary Brown, Renae Tvedt, Shelia Spicola, Lisa DeVitto, Renee Meehan, Pam Tayon, Lorraine Smith, Gerry Smelt, Shirley Mora and Jeffrey Siewert. Planning Commission Advisors: Rose Petrucha & Terry Cullen Guest: Ruth Hughes Absent: Phyllis Pacyna (Unexcused) Call to OrderMeeting was called to order at 6:30 pm. Quorum was noted. The Chair gave Jeffrey Siewert the floor to report on his outline of the Section Transportation as Jeffrey had a 7:00 meeting to attend. Jeffrey stated that he had put together an outline for the Transportation Section. The idea behind this outline is so that each section is in continuity with one another. He considered the outline a “work in progress”. He reported that his group consists of Gerry, Phyllis, Pam and Neil Cosentino. Jeffrey had given out the Madeira Beach Plan just as something tangible to put our hands on decide how we want the finished plan to look like. Introduction; A Summary of existing Conditions; Summary of what the community sees for the future; Methods to accomplish that; and Potential Implementation Procedures. That would all be broken down into graphs, pictures tools to show how it is all done. The document is concise in telling whoever picks it up to show what we have gone though to get to the PLAN. The items in the VISION document should be in the PLAN document for each section. Charner made some suggestions of Recreation organization. Lisa suggested that non-motorized and pedestrians might be thought to be the same but they are two different management issues. Charner suggested that we define “non-motorized”. Jeffrey explained that when someone picks this up that he/she would understand what we’ve done. The Chair suggested to Lisa and Charner that we use this outline Jeffrey has prepared to use our study groups from each section perspective, but the perspectives will follow the outline given so we all can mesh together as a “whole” in the final PLAN. Terry Cullen suggested that we are bogging down in trying to decide how the PLAN will look. We don’t need to do that now, but use Jeffrey’s logical outline this is a great way to organize research and then see what comes out of that and based on that we might get some insights on how we want to put it into an actual document. Terry explained that the Town & Country, Tampa Heights both published for public consumption a abbreviated version, an executive summary of very complex plans. The complex plan is what the policy makers will refer to but the public is not going to look at this, as it is too complex. So your plan can be extremely complicated or extremely simple. It just what you think you can accomplish. A plan can run all the way through implementation but why Rose and I think that you don’t want to do that is because when you get that far and you start branching out with these ideas you’ve brought the community through excepting in consensus that we all want Davis Islands to look good then in the PLAN you show regulating the use of their property they are going to go ballistic on you and they are going to reject your plan because of that. If you really want to go that far, Terry recommends that we insert a community wide meeting before that. Show them the options at that meeting let them select the options so that they are deciding again through consensus. You’ve gone through the years distilling the issues and if you go to implementation issues you’ll have to go through that process again of meeting with the community and getting feedback on the options. As a beginning point this outline an excellent way of defining the information and what you need to be doing is focusing in on how you’re going to get the information that you need to support the final presentation, to make the tradeoffs of each item for further discussion. It was asked if anyone had a hardcopy of the VISION. The Chair stated that she was trying to get it on our website. Terry Cullen said he could have it put on an FTP site and would give me the address. The Chair asked if the Task Force accepted the outline as presented by Jeffrey. Charner suggested that we do go to the options and have an open house for people to look at the options of each section together. The Task Force agreed on using the presented outline for gathering the information for each of the sections. The Chair brought the Task Force back to the order of the Agenda. She asked if anyone had any objections to the minutes presented. Charner stated that she had not received some of the emails from the Chair. There were no objections to the minutes and they were considered approved. Unfinished BusinessThe Chair introduced Ruth Hughes who is the owner of the stores from Fig Leaf to the Hardware Store. The Chair applauded Ruth for her enthusiasm and dedication to the Commercial area. Gary Brown was asked to report on the meeting he had for Commercial section. Gary reported that his group consisted of: Ruth, Dennis, Scott Jorgensen, Renae and Lorraine Smith. He said he didn’t have anything for us to look at tonight but would give a verbal report. All the participants took one or two VISION statements and they were to break it down in outline form. Gary reported that he felt that he was heading in the same direction as Jeffrey’s outline. He praised Ruth’s return as she had brought back the outline from her VISION sections all through options on how to achieve them. He stated that he was still waiting on a return from Dennis and Scott. Renae, because of her professional time restraints has offered to collect maps of the entire Islands to document existing conditions. Gary suggested that he thought if we could see where it started to where it’s gotten to would be worthwhile to put into the PLAN. The Chair asked if he had received the Village Center Brochure that DP Davis put out. Ruth and Gary had not received it. The Chair would send it again. Lisa was called on to report on her group. She reported that she had not had a meeting as yet but that she planned to use the list the Chair sent her of the interested parties signed up at the first Open-house meeting to get participants. She had looked at the VISION and pull out areas that Residential would be interested in. She proposed that her group would map where the multifamily and single families were and research the zoning and building restrictions and document them. New BusinessShirley Mora was asked to report on the number of surveys for the recreation department had she gotten so far. Shirley reported that she had 18 or 19 surveys and only 14 of them were senior citizens out of the 300 she had gotten from the City. She and Rhoda Franklin were going to sit out in front of Dennis’s and get passer -byers to fill them out. Shirley asked each person at the meeting to fill out the surveys and they responded. Shirley said she was going to the DICA meeting the next night and pass them out. Rhoda was taking them to the little league game and get some filled out. Gary offered to give the Chair copies of the VISION statement to hand out at the DICA meeting the next night. It was suggested that we meet twice per month; one meeting would be for the sections and one meeting would be for the Task Force. It was decided that the Task Force Meeting would be scheduled for the second Monday of every month. The group meetings determined by the Team Leader. |
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