Davis Islands Neighborhood Planning Task ForceWorking Meeting Minutes Present: Dennis Cavanaugh, Lee Medart, Gary Brown, Lisa DeVitto, and Lorraine Smith, Sheila Spicola, Jeffrey Siewert, Charner Reese. Planning Commission Advisor: Rose Petrucha Participants: Pam Tayon, Shirley Mora, Scott Jorgensen, Andy Hayes, Ruth Hughes Absent: Renae Tvedt, (Excused) and Gerry Smelt, Phyllis Pacyna, Renee Meehan, (Unexcused) Call to OrderMeeting was called to order at 6:35 pm. Quorum noted. Minutes to the March 8th meeting were postponed again as Chair brought the wrong minutes and Lisa DeVitto that we bring them up at the next meeting suggested it. Minutes to the April 5 meeting were approved with corrections. Unfinished BusinessUnfinished Business (report by chairs of plan-development subgroups) Residential Report: (Andy Hayes) – Based on the suggested items in the Vision under “Residential”, Andy handed out a list of detail that he thought needed to be visited by the Residential Plan-development group. The dates were left open as Gerry Smelt indicated that he would be available after May 16th as he was tied up with a work-project. Andy suggested meetings of the group about every 3 weeks with about 1 hour – 2 hours of research per week in between. Therefore if the members can’t make the meetings there is a work-product that you can prepare. The proposed agenda suggests that in 6 weeks that the important items can be addressed and what drove his outline was the discussion of the “small-town character” and “Community Identity”) is a broad-based topic that lays out the framework that makes some of these things more concrete. The discussion should center on the zoning laws and the zoning mix of what is here and from that where single-family is and where commercial and recreation are. The things in the VISION seem to compel us to think of zoning – he asked if anyone knew how many RS-75 zoning lots on the Islands or how many multi-family lots on the Islands. We should be able to first get a handle on that first. Then invite the other groups in to see how they interface with the residential zonings of the map. He was looking towards completing the residential section by suggested November date. Recreation: (Charner Reese) – Charner passed out her next meeting agenda to everyone and announced that her last three meetings were May 10th (Tennis Courts 6:30 pm til 8:30 pm) May 24th and June 7th (if needed). Her draft outline, Introduction, tells about the overview of the group – History & the inventory. The third – Values with the issues that were identified. Then the VISION statement will be gone over and thus these segments provide the background of coming up with the options for the PLAN. She explained that her group went by categories or themes, which are: Preservation, Connectivity, Beautification, Upgrading Existing Facilities, Expansion of Facilities and Expansion of Programs. That’s all this group is going to do, she commented. Section 7, Recommending and Prioritizing for implementation in the PLAN – This section will actually be done by the Task Force in an overall view of the PLAN to recommend to the community to get feedback. Within this sections will be the prioritized recommendations, cost projection, projected funding sources. Charner felt that this should fall under the Recommendation Chapter of the PLAN. She explained that the one section her group had not covered sufficiently was the “What If” statements – What would people like to see IF the hospital went away, airport went away and so on. Discussion ensued. Charner suggested and it was generally agreed that we need to get visuals expressing what we are proposing in the PLAN. Transportation Report: (Jeffrey Siewert) – Jeffrey reported that his group had met a couple of times and they were behind. Of the six chapters that are in the outline, we have drafts of three. They have drafted the existing conditions summary; identified “Hot Spots” on the Islands; Are in the process of extracting all the information on Transportation from the VISION; The Introduction; Existing Condition Summary and the VISION. The Chair asked how long he expected to be meeting. Jeffrey answered that by June 25th that his group will be completed. Jeffrey explained that in the documentation, each area with a problem has specifics to them and calls for different traffic calming techniques and he is going to document them on a map. The Chair suggested to all the groups that they bring in professionals from the City as well as from other places to explain how other places have solved problems and the City’s way of solving problems. Charner had City’s Recreation/Parks/Greenways representatives as well as a Land Use Attorney from St. Petersburg on how they have saved as much greenspace/parks that they have. It’s very eye opening and interesting as well as getting answers from the City immediately as to proposals. Commercial: (Gary Brown) – Most of materials are organized but not yet written out. They are in the 4th section of brainstorming the different areas of the Islands. Gary explained that he had started his “history” of the business section by drawing an overview map based on the 1924-25 historic map from D.P. Davis. It shows that the original plan for the business center was planned from Danube “curve” paralleled by Barbados and Chesapeake down to the Seddon Channel. He explained that he wanted some type of map that shows what businesses are here today and compare it to another map that shows what businesses use to be here. We are trying to understand what makes us a sustainable community. Much in-depth discussion took place with the task force members asking pertinent questions Gary. We ended our discussion on a very good note in that we “represented” a microcosm of the whole Islands. Much of the discussion spoke to “driving” economic forces and be prepared for them with a PLAN that will direct it. New BusinessDICA Question – The Chair reported that at an executive board meeting to which we, Gary Brown and myself, were invited to answer some “land use” questions they had on the VISION, it turned out that they asked that the Task Force become a committee of Davis Islands Civic Association. I told them that was a question to be presented to the Task Force, not one I could answer. In the meantime I’ve done some research and talked with both City and County representative and was told that because we were authorized by the City Council and an autonomous body, as we represent all stakeholders and DICA represents only the residents, we could not become a committee of another organization. Therefore it is not a question. Lorraine Smith made a motion seconded by Charner that we have an official of either county or city write a letter pointing out those facts directly to DICA. It was put to a vote and was approved. Meeting Adjourned: At 8:55pm. Next Meeting(s): |
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