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   Approval of November 5, 2019 CRA Meeting Minutes

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   The CRA Board approved the minutes from the November 5, 2019 CRA meeting.

   • motion:Approve the November 5, 2019 CRA meeting minutes. (passed)

   #November 5, 2019 CRA Meeting Minutes

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   [00:00:15] If, next item is the approval of the minutes for November 5th. [00:00:23] Move for approval. [00:00:26] Second. [00:00:26] Right over it. [00:00:27] Discussion? [00:00:28] Hearing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [00:00:32] Aye. [00:00:33] Opposed, like sign. [00:00:34] Motion passes.

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   First Reading, Resolution No. 2020-01: Amendment to 2019 Redevelopment Plan

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   The CRA Board held first reading of Resolution 2020-01, amending the 2019 Redevelopment Plan to explicitly spell out redevelopment activities (property management, public improvements, economic development incentives, promotion activities, etc.) in response to new state legislation increasing CRA scrutiny. Staff requested adding 'intensity' alongside 'density' bonuses under regulatory incentives. The motion was made and seconded; additional changes (transfer of development rights, dating clarification) will be incorporated at second reading.

   Ord. Resolution No. 2020-01

   • motion:Motion to approve Resolution 2020-01 amending the 2019 Redevelopment Plan, with the addition of 'intensity' bonuses alongside density bonuses. (passed)
   • direction:Staff directed to incorporate additional revisions at second reading, including specifying the adoption date of the 2019 plan and adding transfer of development rights as a permitted item. (none)

   📍5760 Colonial Drive, Newport Ritchie, Florida📍Graves Preserve📍parcel just south of Gulf Harbors🏢Main Street Landings🏢Newport Richey Main Street👤Bill Phillips👤Charles Rudd👤Councilman Altman👤Director Starkey👤Jerry Sieber👤Mr. Davis👤Mr. Murphy#2019 Redevelopment Plan#Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Plan#Resolution 2020-01#TIF revenue#peril of flood statute#transfer of development rights

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   [00:00:36] Next is first reading of Resolution 2020-01, Amendment to the 2019 Redevelopment Plan. [00:00:43] This is Resolution 2020-01, a resolution of the Community Redevelopment Agency of the [00:00:48] City of New Port Richey, recommending to the City Council of New Port Richey, adoption [00:00:53] of an amendment to the Community Redevelopment Plan and providing an effective date. [00:00:58] Yes, ma'am. [00:01:00] Yes, sir, Mr. [00:01:00] Mayor. [00:01:01] As I'm sure you will recall, in April of 2019, the city staff recommended to you an [00:01:13] amendment to our CRA plan, which did two things. [00:01:17] It updated the plan document as well as extended the term of the CRA plan to [00:01:24] September 30th, 2049. [00:01:28] In October of 2019, the state legislature enacted a law which changed some things [00:01:38] related to the operation of CRAs, most of which had to do with ethic, training, [00:01:47] reporting requirements, procedural requirements for procurement, the [00:01:55] requirements related to the annual budget, and performance management data, which [00:02:02] would need to be submitted on an annual basis. [00:02:06] Based on that law, a recommendation is before you this evening related to typical [00:02:16] redevelopment activities, which should be identified specifically in the plan rather [00:02:22] than just in the annual budget. [00:02:25] And in that respect, Mr. [00:02:27] Rudd has prepared a PowerPoint presentation for you, which identifies specifically [00:02:34] the activities which we are hoping to include in our plan. [00:02:39] Thank you, Mr. [00:02:39] Rudd. [00:02:40] Thank you. [00:02:42] Good evening. [00:02:43] I did a PowerPoint to kind of outline the changes. [00:02:48] The update to the redevelopment plan in 2019 had seven components to it. [00:02:55] Number one was sort of a summary of previous planning efforts. [00:02:59] Number two, section two, was the market context and growth outlook. [00:03:03] Three was a review of community investments from 2012 to 2018. [00:03:07] Four was public involvement, sort of summarizing how input was received from [00:03:12] the public for the update. [00:03:14] Five was analysis of the real estate market. [00:03:17] Six was a financial analysis of the TIF and the projections of TIF revenue. [00:03:22] And then seven was the strategic action plan. [00:03:25] And I want to emphasize that we're not proposing to change any of the existing [00:03:30] language in the plan because of the issues that the city manager mentioned. [00:03:36] The legislature has been increasing the scrutiny of CRAs and every year passes a [00:03:41] few more regulations for us to follow. [00:03:44] And something that's been emphasized by the Redevelopment Association and [00:03:48] certainly I went through the Certification Institute over and over again, they [00:03:51] said, when we're asking, can we do this or can we do that, they said, make sure [00:03:55] it's in your plan. [00:03:57] So what we're looking at is section seven, adding language to the existing [00:04:01] section for our action plan. [00:04:05] And those include, what I've done is kind of boiled down the documents you [00:04:08] have, property management and maintenance, streetscaping and site [00:04:12] maintenance, public improvements, beautification, infrastructure, enhanced [00:04:17] code enforcement, community policing innovations, beautification such as [00:04:21] gateways, branding, holiday and special event manners, and so forth. [00:04:26] Economic development tools such as the incentives that we have now, but now [00:04:30] they're really spelled out, incentives for new residential development, [00:04:33] incentives for new business, regulatory incentives, business and developer [00:04:37] recruitment, so forth. [00:04:40] It provides us the power to purchase property, to sell property, to demolish [00:04:47] buildings, to rehabilitate buildings, to move buildings, also to contract for [00:04:53] administration and professional consulting services, and then to conduct [00:04:57] promotion activities such as marketing and branding, which could include things [00:05:01] like brand development and extension, banners, shopping guides, social media [00:05:06] sites, and so forth. [00:05:08] The whole crux of it is to cast a wide net and to capture anything we plan to [00:05:14] do or may do that are usually their best practices for redevelopment agencies, to [00:05:19] ensure that it's explicitly spelled out in our plan. [00:05:23] Our consultant felt that these things were implicit in the statute and we [00:05:29] really want it spelled out in the document. [00:05:30] So our request to you is to adopt this. [00:05:34] I did have one addition I wanted to add. [00:05:37] If you have the document in front of you, under economic development, under [00:05:45] regulatory incentives, we have density bonuses and rezoning. [00:05:49] We want to make that density slash intensity. [00:05:52] It was brought to my attention that density refers only to residential and [00:05:57] intensity is for commercial. [00:05:59] So we wanted to make sure that we include both of those. [00:06:02] So my request to you would be to approve it with that addition of intensity [00:06:07] bonuses, and I'll be happy to answer any questions you have. [00:06:13] Questions? [00:06:15] Mr. [00:06:15] Attorney, would you like to read the... [00:06:19] I did read it, Mr. [00:06:19] Mayor. [00:06:20] The resolution? [00:06:21] Yes. [00:06:22] I'd like a motion to approve if there's no questions. [00:06:26] Second. [00:06:26] Open it up for public comment. [00:06:31] Good evening. [00:06:43] Bill Phillips, 5760 Colonial Drive, New Port Richey, Florida. [00:07:02] Just a couple of things. [00:07:05] One, in the amendment itself, could you be more specific on the exact community [00:07:11] CRA plan, the date that it was adopted? [00:07:15] Could you add that to the amendment? [00:07:19] Because people recognize that over the last five years, we've [00:07:22] done multiple CRA updates. [00:07:26] So if you would add the date that that one was accepted, you would [00:07:30] hone in people if they were looking for most current information. [00:07:36] So that's just a suggestion. [00:07:38] It does provide in the resolution for amendment of the most recent plan [00:07:43] that was adopted, actually in 2019, earlier this year, right, Charles? [00:07:47] The title is the 2019 CRA update. [00:07:49] So that's in there. [00:07:51] I understand, but if you could just for clarity's sake, because there's a lot [00:07:57] of different ordinances and amendments and everything that happens through the [00:08:01] council, in your economic development side, you know, not looking at every [00:08:10] paragraph in, in, in totality or drilling into everyone, do one of your [00:08:19] bullet points also hit upon the development rights that the city could [00:08:26] assign from other properties that the city owns, and let me give you a specific [00:08:32] example, when the main street landings project was renegotiated and part of [00:08:40] its economic elements for it to move forward, development rights from [00:08:46] additional property that had been purchased in the interim on Graves [00:08:51] Preserve was provided to main street landings. [00:08:56] So I just wasn't sure that in your bullet points, you talk about lease [00:09:01] rebates, you talk about a whole variety of things, just wanted to make sure if [00:09:06] one of your bullet points gives you a broad enough opportunity to do that. [00:09:16] Or if you'd have to do a special ordinance or whatever. [00:09:18] So that just comes from being on council when that particular deal was [00:09:24] renegotiated, so, so just wanted to make sure, just offer that. [00:09:29] As you go down, where it talks about, it talks about facilities, downtown events. [00:09:41] I know it says they can include, suggestion can or may include, because [00:09:48] you have tied yourself into engaging these stakeholders, and once again, [00:09:53] you've engaged it as the Newport G Main Street organization. [00:09:58] I know that that's made a comeback, but I've been around since its inception [00:10:03] in the nineties, and I'm just wondering if it's in here, if that locks it in [00:10:10] for perpetuity, I mean forever. [00:10:13] So those are really my points, because obviously that relationship [00:10:18] has had its ups and downs. [00:10:20] It's been named many different things. [00:10:22] It was actually the community cooperative when it started back in the [00:10:25] nineties, and actually was housed within city domain and had office [00:10:33] within the city and all that. [00:10:34] So I understand that wanting to tie this back into the changes that the [00:10:40] state has made, and obviously the Main Street group has done a wonderful [00:10:47] job in different parts of their existence, and it seems like they've [00:10:50] made a nice return to the forefront, which is great, but once again, as [00:10:57] you've indicated, and I think we understand by our CRA as its entity, [00:11:03] it just doesn't deal with Main Street in 19. [00:11:07] The CRA is in some ways almost 100% the geographic boundaries [00:11:15] of the city of New Port Richey. [00:11:17] I don't know that anybody's ever outlined if it is 100%, but I do know [00:11:22] that when Jerry Sieber put that into place years and years ago, that he [00:11:27] made that footprint as broad and as dynamic as it is, that's the [00:11:33] reason you have all these other moving parts within your CRA or sub-CRAs. [00:11:39] And the only other thing it doesn't talk to is if you were to create, [00:11:44] not that you would have the ability, but if there was the way that you [00:11:49] would do a separate internal smaller CRA more defined, I don't know [00:11:55] that you can still, I don't know if you're able to do that any longer, [00:11:59] but there were times in the past where it was talked about doing just a [00:12:05] subset of the CRA to focus just on Main Street, just on 19. [00:12:10] I don't know that you've got that flexibility anymore, but just wanted [00:12:14] to make sure that your amendment and as you're moving forward kind [00:12:20] of hits on all those things. [00:12:21] So that's all, that's what I had, Mr. [00:12:22] Mayor. [00:12:22] Well, thank you for your comments, Bill. [00:12:24] And good to see you. [00:12:25] Good to see you. [00:12:26] Thank you. [00:12:29] Yes. [00:12:29] I'd like that Candid May in this second idea. [00:12:32] I'd like to know more about what he was talking about in the first one. [00:12:37] Because this is the first reading, right? [00:12:39] Yeah. [00:12:40] It is. [00:12:40] Yeah. [00:12:41] So can we just get more explanation of what he was asking in the first one? [00:12:45] I would certainly... [00:12:46] Is that referring to the date, Mr. [00:12:48] Mayor? [00:12:49] The date? [00:12:49] Yeah. [00:12:50] Just, I mean, you know, it's... [00:12:51] Well, it's in the... [00:12:52] I mean, you're saying 19, you know, and I don't remember how [00:12:55] many times we've hit it. [00:12:56] So, you know, and that's, this is a whole year in the past. [00:12:58] So, you know... [00:12:59] Right. [00:13:01] That's fine. [00:13:02] I'm more than glad to make that change. [00:13:04] I'm additionally for... [00:13:06] I'm sorry, go ahead. [00:13:07] And the May in Cannes, that's, you know, sometimes... [00:13:10] It's semantics. [00:13:11] Sometimes, but it's not a bad idea. [00:13:16] Any other comments? [00:13:19] Yeah. [00:13:19] Go through the motion discussion now? [00:13:21] Yes, please. [00:13:22] Thank you. [00:13:22] Related to the comments that were made by Councilman Phillips, [00:13:27] former Councilman, always a Councilman, I guess, mayors are [00:13:30] always a mayor, maybe we call Councilman always a Councilman [00:13:33] too, might as well. [00:13:35] The understanding I have is that this won't be the only [00:13:40] amendment to our comprehensive, to our CRA plan. [00:13:43] In fact, at our, I think it was our last CRA meeting, our [00:13:47] city council meeting, that Director Starkey made the [00:13:51] comment about, you know, revisiting whether we modify [00:13:56] the, you know, contract any boundaries. [00:13:59] And I think that we have a discussion coming up in the [00:14:01] first of the year as to whatever changes we might make. [00:14:05] I think I recall reiterating too, that I wanted to have a [00:14:09] little scrubbing of how we were dealing with the resiliency [00:14:13] since that's been such a big issue with peril of flood and [00:14:17] statute requirement to, for our comprehensive plan, if it's in [00:14:22] the comprehensive plan, it needs to be in the CRA plan. [00:14:25] And are we changing the comprehensive plan? [00:14:27] So we have a lot of planning discussions to come up with. [00:14:31] Comments made by Mr. [00:14:32] Phillips related to the transfer of development rights and the [00:14:37] subdivision of the district into smaller districts. [00:14:41] I think that our executive director properly corrected [00:14:48] something, you know, the fact that we can't have multiple [00:14:51] ones in a city anymore, but you can have sections within the CRA. [00:14:56] I think I had advocated at one time, trying to have a [00:15:00] one and another one, and I think the attorney can probably straighten us out on that. But [00:15:05] I think we have to have our single CRA, but we could have districts within it or focus [00:15:10] areas or that sort of thing. I think he's talking about that. All those are good ideas. [00:15:15] I think your current request is for us to approve this particular resolution to allow [00:15:21] us to complete some of the things we're contemplating now. And so I would just like to suggest those [00:15:27] items that are going to take discussion and fleshing out. Maybe we'd come back soon. [00:15:35] As to the dating of it, the resolution is a 2020-01 because we're in the 2020 fiscal [00:15:41] year. I know the website posting of all of our planned documents is critical, and it's [00:15:48] also a big part of what the new law reiterating again that we make sure we post our budgets [00:15:53] and all our documents. So to avoid someone looking at an earlier plan and comparing [00:16:01] these changes to that or getting confused with the transition of plan and the amendments [00:16:09] after it, you're identifying the resolution, and then you say 2019 plan update. So if we've [00:16:20] done one update in 2019 already, then is this 2019-A or 2019-B or 2019-3, or is it [00:16:28] now the 2020 update because we're going to be consistent with our fiscal years and identifying [00:16:35] our fiscal year 2020 update. So I'm sure there's plenty of time to modify that if it's helpful. [00:16:47] Other than that, I agree with what's been said. I'm happy to see the professionalism [00:16:53] in us scrubbing our plan. That's important to me and I'm sure the rest of the board. [00:16:57] Mr. Murphy, anything? [00:16:59] Yeah, I think Councilman Altman was hitting on it a little bit in the beginning. I know [00:17:04] that has nothing to do with this, but I know in the future we're looking at soon changing [00:17:09] some of our boundaries and things for our CRA, taking out some of those things that [00:17:13] don't need to be in there, that kind of thing. That's still coming up, correct? [00:17:19] In response to the question, Mr. Mayor, we will be conducting a neighborhood assessment [00:17:24] to determine whether or not there have been significant growth in taxable base to determine [00:17:35] then whether or not the CRA boundaries should be rescinded and restricted to take those [00:17:42] properties outside of the boundaries of our CRA. And once those neighborhoods have been [00:17:49] identified, then a legal description will be drafted of the subject area and we will [00:17:55] be back before you asking for that change. [00:17:59] I would just ask that on top of looking at increased accessible taxable values, you look [00:18:04] at the neighborhoods and see if they actually qualify under the terms slum and blighted [00:18:07] as well, not just the taxable values. [00:18:10] Anything else, Mr. Davis? [00:18:12] No. [00:18:13] The one thing that Mr. Phelps brought up that I think is probably important to get in before [00:18:18] we go to second reading was the reference that he made to the transfer development rights, [00:18:25] which I know we did, and I think he's correct about some from Gray, and there's a parcel [00:18:31] that we own over just south of Gulf Harbors, and we pulled some of those out too. So having [00:18:41] that in the CRA plan as a permitted item, I think if we're trying to make sure we've [00:18:49] got everything in there, including the kitchen sink, that would certainly be something I'd [00:18:54] like to see when we get to second reading. [00:18:56] Mr. Chairman, on that topic, I think that may be the one of few parcels that are outside [00:19:01] the CRA boundaries, and I don't know that that makes any difference or not, but it wouldn't [00:19:06] be a transfer within the boundaries of the CRA. So while you're mentioning that, it might [00:19:13] have to be posed as to consider receiving additional transfers from outside the CRA [00:19:19] if, in fact, it's not in the CRA. [00:19:22] That's an excellent point. [00:19:24] Okay. Any other discussion? [00:19:26] Yeah, it just refreshes my memory of having Kelsman Phillips, because I was up here with [00:19:30] him at the time, talk about transfer development rights, and I might add streetscaping that [00:19:35] we put into Main Street Landing as well. We've done quite a bit, in my opinion, as a city [00:19:41] to work with this developer over the years, and I'm very, very, very, very happy to finally [00:19:46] see this coming to fruition without any additional extensions, I'm assuming. [00:19:54] Since our new employee is going to be living there starting the middle of this month, they [00:19:58] better get it finished quick. [00:20:01] Any further discussion? [00:20:02] Mr. Chairman? [00:20:03] Yes, sir. [00:20:04] The adding intensity, do you want to do that on second reading, or? [00:20:08] Yeah, we can bring all that stuff in at the second reading.

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