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CAPTIONING

MARCH 11, 2013

PLANNING COMMISSION

***This is not an official, verbatim transcript of the ***following meeting. It should be used for informational ***purposes only. This document has not been edited; ***therefore, there may be additions, deletions, or words ***that did not translate.

> DEREK DOUGHTY: GOOD AFTERNOON AND WELCOME TO THE MARCH11th, 2013 REGULAR MEETING OF THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY CITY COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION.

WE THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING THIS MEETING, YOUR COMMENTS AND PARTICIPATION ARE ENCOURAGED.

IF YOU WILL PLEASE SIGN THE REGISTER AT THE REAR OF THE ROOM AND TURN OFF ANY DEVICES THAT MAY BE A DISTRACTION.

WHEN ADDRESSING THE COMMISSION, PLEASE BEGIN WITH YOUR NAME, ADDRESS AND SPEAK DIRECTLY INTO THE MICROPHONE.

THE MEETING WILL BE CONDUCTED AS FOLLOWS, AGENDA ITEM WILL BE INTRODUCED AND STAFF WILL GIVE THEIR PRESENTATION WITH A 15 MINUTE LIMIT.

THE APPLICANT WILL GIVE THEIR PRESENTATION WITH A 15 MINUTE.

THE PLANNING COMMISSIONERS WILL THEN ASK QUESTIONS AND PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE CLOSED AND UPON A MOTION AND SECOND OF DISCUSSION A VOTE WILL BE TAKEN.

WITH THAT, I ASK YOU TO JOIN ME IN THE PRAYER AND THE PLEDGE.

> GOD, IT IS GOOD TO RECOGNIZE HOW DIFFERENT WE ARE, OUR TALENTS, OUR DREAMS, OUR BACKGROUNDS AND OCCUPATIONS.

NO ONE IS EXACTLY LIKE ANYONE ELSE, EVEN OUR THUMB PRINT AND VOICE TRACK TELL US HOW UNIQUE WE ARE, THAT WE THANK YOU THAT YOU CAN TAKE THESE DIFFERENCES AND VERBALIZE THEM FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COMMUNITY.

OUR DIFFERENCES, WE CAN THINK THE SAME THOUGHTS AND MOVE TOWARD A COMMON GOAL.

BLESS US AS WE MEET TOGETHER AND THANK YOU FOR OUR INDIVIDUALITY AND OUR COMMON BOND.

AMEN.

I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.

> DEREK DOUGHTY: MAY WE HAVE ROLL CALL.

[ROLL CALL]

> CLERK: WE HAVE A QUORUM.

> DEREK DOUGHTY: THANK YOU.

THE NEXT ITEM WE HAVE ON AGENDA IS THE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF THE JANUARY14th, 2013, AND THE JANUARY14th, 2013 PUBLIC HEARING.

> I MOVE FOR APPROVAL.

> DEREK DOUGHTY: WE HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER BUFORD AND A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER PIKE.

PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE.

[ CHORUS OF AYES ]

THOSE OPPOSED?

THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.

OKAY.

AT THIS TIME, AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW, TODAY IS COMMISSIONER BUFORD'S LAST MEETING WITH US AS SHE'S MADE A DECISION TO DO THE NEXT RIGHT THING FOR HERSELF AND HER FAMILY, AND AS SHE LEAVES US, I WISH TO ACKNOWLEDGE HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THIS COMMISSION.

THROUGHOUT HER YEARS IN TAMPA, COMMISSIONER BUFORD HAS BEEN ACTIVE IN A COMMUNITY LEADER AND PRESIDENT OF THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION OF THE PORT OF TAMPA.

SHE'S BEEN AN OUTSTANDING LEADER IN HER COMMUNITY SINCE SHE MOVED INTO THE PORT TAMPA COMMUNITY WHERE SHE WAS THERE TO ESTABLISH THE PORT TAMPA CITY CIVIC ASSOCIATION.

JILL HAS ALSO BEEN A MEMBER OF THE PORT TAMPA CITY WOMEN'S CLUB, A SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY ADVISABLE COMMUNITY AND THE MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE RESTORATION.

SHE RECEIVED AWARDS FROM THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL AND THE SOUTH TAMPA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

IN DECEMBER OF 2007, JILL WAS APPOINTED BY THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL TO FILL COMMISSIONER MALZONE'S UNEXPIRED TERM.

SHE WAS REAPPOINTED IN 2009 FOR A FOURYEAR TERM.

SHE WAS ELECTED AS MEMBER AT LARGE IN 2011 AND 2012 AND SERVED ON THE AD HOC BUDGET COMMITTEE AND THE PUBLIC INFORMATION COMMITTEE.

SHE'S PROVIDED GUIDANCE FOR OUR DIRECTION AND RESPONSIBLE COMPLIMENTS AND CRITICISMS AND ALL THE APPROPRIATE PLACES.

SHE VALUES OTHERS OPINIONS AND CONSIDERS OTHER IDEAS IN WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE A FINAL RESULT.

IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH HER OVER THE YEARS AND I WILL TRULY MISS HER.

AS TODAY IS OUR LAST DAY TOGETHER ALL IN ONE PLACE, TODAY IS A PERFECT DAY TO SAY THANK YOU AND TELL YOU THAT I HOPE TO ONE DAY LEAVE AN IMPRESSION ON OTHERS SIMILAR TO THE ONE YOU HAVE LEFT ON ME.

AND WITH THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT YOU WITH A PLAQUE.

[APPLAUSE]

> JILL BUFORD: I WAS DEFINITELY NOT EXPECTING A PLAQUE AND ALL OF THOSE NICE THINGS THAT CHAIRMAN DOUGHTY SAID TO ME.

IT'S AN HONOR TO SERVE WITH ALL OF YOU.

I RESPECT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO THIS BOARD, AND TO THE COMMUNITY IN WHICH WE REPRESENT, ALL OF THEM, THE CITY, COMMUNITIES AND THE COUNTYWIDE.

I'M JUST ASTOUNDED.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ACKNOWLEDGING MY SERVICE OVER THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

HOPEFULLY I WILL COME BACK AND I CAN STIR YOU INTO ACTION AGAIN, WHICH IS WHAT I DO BEST, TO STIR PEOPLE INTO ACTION.

AND I THANK YOU AGAIN FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.

THANK YOU.

[APPLAUSE]

> DEREK DOUGHTY: WITH THAT, WE WILL GO TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER TWO, PUBLIC INPUT FOR ITEMS NOT SCHEDULED ON THE AGENDA.

IF THERE'S ANYONE WHO WISHES TO PROVIDE COMMENTS ON ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA, PLEASE APPROACH THE PODIUM.

STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS AND YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES.

OKAY.

SEEING NONE, WE WILL MOVE TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 3, EVALUATIONS OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND YOU SHOULD HAVE ALL RECEIVED A MAILING FROM OUR ATTORNEY COMMISSIONER ROBIN, WHO WILL COLLECT THE EVALUATIONS AT THIS TIME.

> YES, MR. CHAIRMAN, THANK YOU.

THIS IS THE ANNUAL REVIEW FOR YOUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WHICH IS CALLED FOR IN HIS CONTRACT.

I PROVIDED EACH ONE OF YOU WITH A COPY OF THE EVALUATION FORM, WHICH I HOPE YOU BROUGHT WITH YOU.

IF YOU DIDN'T, I HAVE SOME EXTRAS.

I WOULD LIKE TO YOU COMPLETE THAT FORM AND PUT YOUR NAME ON THE FRONT PAGE SO WE KNOW WHO PROVIDES EACH EVALUATION.

WE WILL GIVE YOU A MINUTE TO DO THAT AND COLLECT ALL THE FORMS SO YOU CAN MOVE ON WITH YOUR AGENDA.

COMMISSIONER CURY.

> BRUCE CURY: I DID NOT KNOW THAT COMMISSIONER BUFORD WAS GOING TO NOT BE PRESENT WITH US ANY LONGER, SO I HAVE I WANTED TO SAY SOME NICE THINGS ABOUT HER AND I DIDN'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO PREPARE.

SO WHAT I WILL OFFER IS SIMPLY AN EXPERIENCE I'VE HAD WITH HER.

I REMEMBER WE WERE BOTH APPOINTED BY THE CITY OF TAMPA CITY COUNCIL, AND WE BOTH CAME UP FOR ELECTION AT THE SAME TIME.

AND IT CAME TO BE KNOWN BY ME THAT SHE WAS NOT GOING TO SHE WAS NOT GOING TO BE ASKED TO BE REAPPOINTED, THAT IS THE TERM IN WHICH SHE CURRENTLY SITS.

SO I CALLED HER AT HOME AND I FIRST HAD TO PERSUADE HER HUSBAND AND THEN AFTER I PERSUADED HER HUSBAND, I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO HER.

AND I SPOKE TO HER FOR ABOUT A HALF HOUR OR LONGER, AND IN THE ESSENCE OF THAT CONVERSATION WAS SHE CARED VERY MUCH FOR THE THINGS THAT WE DO AND HAD GREAT RESPECT FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION, BUT SHE JUST DIDN'T FEEL AS IF SHE WAS CONTRIBUTING AS MUCH AS SHE WANTED TO CONTRIBUTE.

WELL, I EXPLAINED TO HER THAT THAT WAS WE ALL SEE A MOUNTAIN AND A MOUSE THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES AND MY VISION WAS DIFFERENT, THAT SHE HAD GREAT CONTRIBUTION.

AND SHE WAS A LITTLE SHE WAS RELUCTANT TO REAPPLY BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T THINK SHE WAS AS ARTICULATE AS SOME OTHERS.

I EXPLAINED TO HER FOR, YOU KNOW, ALL THE WORDS IT COMES DOWN TO A VOTE AND HER VOTE TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE THAT SHE CARES TO REPRESENT WAS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS ANYBODY ELSE'S.

WELL, SHE LISTENED TO ME, AND I'M GLAD.

AND THEN SUBSEQUENT TO THE TIME THAT SHE WAS REAPPOINTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, I HAVE NO SMALL NUMBER OF TIMES REMINDED HER OF THAT DISCUSSION AND HOW MANY TIMES HER VOTE WAS CRUCIAL TO THE WAY THIS BOARD WENT.

AND I GUESS MAYBE MY DISCUSSION WITH HER IS SOMETHING NEW IN HER LIFE BUT IT ENGENDERED A NEW FORCE IN HER PERSUASIVENESS.

AND THAT I ALSO BROUGHT TO HER ATTENTION.

SO MANY TIMES BY HER METHOD AND HER LANGUAGE AND HER DEMEANOR, SHE HAS PERSUADED THE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMISSION TO DO THINGS WHICH SHE THOUGHT WAS RIGHT.

SHE HAS BEEN A NONPERIL IS THE WORD.

SHE'S BEEN WITHOUT FEAR AND SO I'M VERY PROUD TO KNOW HER AND I'M GLAD THAT SHE DECIDED TO REUP FOR THE NEXT NUMBER OF YEARS AND I WILL MISS HER AS WE WILL.

THANK YOU.

> DEREK DOUGHTY: THANK YOU COMMISSIONER CURY.

> JILL BUFORD: THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER CURY.

VERY INTERESTING.

AS YOU KNOW, WE DON'T ALWAYS AGREE ON OUR DECISIONS, THE BOARD'S DECISIONS BUT WE ALWAYS SEEM TO AGREE THAT WE WILL BE FRIENDS.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

> DEREK DOUGHTY: OKAY.

OUR ATTORNEY HAS COLLECTED ALL THE EVALUATIONS.

BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM FOUR.

I BELIEVE I STATED THE MINUTES WERE FOR THE JANUARY14thMEETING AS OPPOSED TO THE FEBRUARY11thMEETING.

SO WE NEED TO HAVE ON THE RECORD THAT THE MINUTES THAT WERE APPROVED WERE FOR FEBRUARY.

THE ONES IN OUR PACKET WERE FOR FEBRUARY.

AND WITH THAT, WE CAN MOVE TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 4, TAMPA, TERRACE PARK/UNIVERSITY SQUARE VISION PLAN UPDATE.

MR.GARCIA.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED TO MODIFY THE MOTION.

I BELIEVE THE MOTION WAS TO MODIFY THE MINUTES.

I THINK THE CLARIFICATION STATING THAT THEY ARE FEBRUARY INSTEAD OF JANUARY IS ENOUGH.

MR.GARCIA?

> THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIRMAN.

GOOD AFTERNOON, COMMISSIONERS, TONY GARCIA PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF.

BEFORE YOU THIS AFTERNOON, I HAVE I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE PROGRESS THAT WE HAVE BEEN MAKING OVER THE PAST YEAR ON THE TERRACE PARK/UNIVERSITY SQUARE COMMUNITY VISION PLAN.

JANUARY2012, AT THE REQUEST OF THE LISA MONTELIONE, AND MAYOR BOB BUCKHORN, THE PLANNING COMMISSION STARTED A PLANNING PROCESS.

IT WAS TO DEVELOP A PROCESS THAT REFLECTED THE IMAGE AND REFLECTED ITS NEED.

IT WILL BE A DOCUMENT THAT CAN BE USED IN THE FUTURE AS A TOOL TO ASSIST THE CITY AND THE SUCCESSFUL DEVELOPMENT AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A COMMUNITY PLAN.

THE UNIVERSITY SQUARE STUDY AREA THAT WE HAD, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS MAP, THIS CLEARLY ILLUSTRATES ALL THE ASSETS CONTAINED WITHIN AND ADJACENT TO THE AREA.

HERE'S YOUR STUDY AREA WHICH IS REPRESENTED BY THE DASHED LINE AND IT EXTENDS FROM THE INTERSTATE TO THE WEST TO THE TEMPLE TERRACE BOUNDARIES TO THE EAST, BUSCH BOULEVARD TO THE SOUTH AND FOWLER AVENUE TO THE NORTH, A SIGNIFICANT SWATH OF LAND, REPRESENTED BY UNIVERSITY SQUARE MALL TO THE WEST, OVER HERE OFF 30thSTREET WHICH BIFURCATES THE STUDY AREA ITSELF, AND THEN TO THE EAST OF 30thSTREET WE HAVE TAMPA INDUSTRIAL PARK, AND, OF COURSE, AS PART OF THAT, ALONG BUSCH BOULEVARD WE HAVE ONE OF OUR MAJOR REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS, ACTUALLY A GREAT STATE ATTRACTOR AND NATIONAL ATTRACTOR, BUSCH GARDENS AND ROWLETT PARK TO THE SOUTH WHICH IS OUTSIDE OF THE BOUNDARIES AND UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA AND JAMES HEALEY HOSPITAL TO THE NORTH JUST OUTSIDE OF THE BOUNDARIES ALSO.

SO THERE ARE A VARIETY AND, OF COURSE, WE HAVE MOSEY FURTHER TO THE UP HERE ALONG FOWLER AVENUE JUST OUTSIDE THE INDUSTRIAL PARK IS GOING TO BE RIGHT AROUND THIS AREA RIGHT HERE WHERE MY ARROW IS AT.

HERE'S AN AERIAL DEPICTION OF THE AREA, WHICH REALLY GIVES YOU A VERY GOOD PERSPECTIVE AS TO THE THIS IS THE TERRACE PARK AREA, THIS IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE TERRACE PARK AND THE UNIVERSITY SQUARE AREA.

THERE'S ACTUALLY THERE'S ACTUALLY AN OLDER AREA THAT'S ALSO REPRESENTED THAT'S ALSO PART OF THE UNIVERSITY SQUARE AREA, BUT AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE GRIDS AND FROM ALL THE TREES THAT WE DO HAVE SOME MAJOR RESIDENTIAL ACTIVITY GOING ON IN THE AREA.

THERE'S DEFINITELY TWO DIFFERENT CHARACTERS OF THE AREA, THIS AREA IS REPRESENTED BY A MUCH LARGER DEGREE OF DUPLEXES AND TRIPLEXES AND MULTIFAMILY USE, IN ADDITION TO SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED USES AND THIS AREA OVER HERE THAT'S ADJACENT TO TEMPLE TERRACE IS MORE ALONG THE SINGLE FAMILY DETACHED LOCATIONS.

AGAIN, HERE IS THE TAMPA INDUSTRIAL PARK.

SO ONCE UPON A TIME, THIS WHOLE AREA REALLY GOING WAY BACK STARTED OFF AS A HILLSBOROUGH ARMY AIRFIELD, WHICH WAS OPENED IN 1943.

THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL IDENTITY OF THE INDUSTRIAL PARK AREA.

IT BECAME A CIVIL USE IN 1948 KNOWN AS HENDERSON FIELD.

IT WAS DECOMMISSIONED IN 1955, AND AFTER 1955, SOME INTERESTING THINGS STARTED HAPPENING IN THE AREA.

THIS IS BUSCH BREWERY IN 1958, AND WE KNOW THAT SUBSEQUENTLY AFTER ITS DEVELOPMENT, BUSCH BREWERY EVOLVED INTO WHAT WE NOW KNOW TODAY THE BREWERY IS GONE NOW WHICH IS IRONIC.

THE BREWERY IS GONE AN NOW WE HAVE BUSCH GARDENS WHICH IS ONE OF OUR MAJOR REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS AND CONTRIBUTORS TO HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.

USF WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1956.

THIS IS ACTUALLY A PHOTOGRAPH OF USF BEING CONSTRUCTED BACK IN 1960.

THIS PROBABLY BRINGS BACK SOME MEMORIES FOR SOME PEOPLE UP HERE WHO HAVE NO DOUBT WALKED THROUGH THE HALLS AND MAYBE EVEN ATTENDED THIS WONDERFUL INSTITUTION, GOD BLESS SAM GIBBONS FOR GETTING THAT FOR US MANY, MANY YEARS AGO AND IS STILL A GREAT REPRESENTATION AND A TESTAMENT TO THE EVOLUTION OF EDUCATION IN THIS PARTICULAR COUNTY OF OURS.

I KNOW ONE REMEMBER IN PARTICULAR WHO IS VERY PROUD OF THAT INSTITUTION, OUR MOST RECENT MEMBER FROM TEMPLE TERRACE, MR.GREEN.

ALSO, WHAT IS A SIGNIFICANT PIECE WAS TAMPA INDUSTRIAL PARK IN 1960, THE COMMISSIONS THAT WERE HELD FOR HOW TAMPA INDUSTRIAL PARK WAS GOING TO BE DEVELOPED INTO A MAJOR INDUSTRIAL CENTER.

REALLY NEVER CAME INTO FRUITION, BUT THESE WERE SOME OF THE INSTITUTIONS THAT WERE THERE AND THIS WAS THE SCHLITZ BREWERY THAT EVENTUALLY BECAME THE YUENGLING BREWERY, AND THIS IS JUST A DIFFERENT AERIAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE ENTIRE TAMPA INDUSTRIAL PARK AREA.

PATRICK GLASS WAS THERE AND THE GLASS COMPANY THAT WAS THERE.

SO THERE ARE QUITE A FEW THINGS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN HERE, IN THE STORIED HISTORY OF THIS UNIVERSITY SQUARE TERRACE PARK AREA.

BRINGING IT UP TO SPEED TO TODAY'S TIME, TERRACE PARK UNIVERSITY SQUARE AREA, ACCORDING TO YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN VISION MAP IS LOCATED WITHIN THE UNIVERSITY PLANNING DISTRICT OUTLINED HERE IN YELLOW.