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>> Welcome to the city of St. Petersburg City Council meeting and your elected officials our mayor Ken Welch district one hopefully And Council chair Randy Gabbert district 3 and not marry. 5 and Council vice chair Debra big spenders. Gina Driscoll. John Muhammad. And district day Richie Floyd. >> Good afternoon everyone we will call to order the Mar. Second 2023 City Council meeting beginning with a roll call gabbard you're very you're and what's here. Sanders year fiscal meant for that Lord, their current us here. This afternoon we will have our invocation given by reverend onboard moved from the who is the senior pastor of Christ United Methodist Church after that please remain standing for a moment of silence to honor a fallen officer or a fallen first responder and then followed by that we will do the pledge of allegiance please stand. >> Gracious GOD we come together to celebrate another wonderful day of your making we ask that you bring your truth and it be revealed your light shine bright and that the voices of the most silence be heard loud and clear defend their cars but GOD through this governing body today. Plus also those that come and serve our city and our people. Pray for wisdom for strength for courage for them that we do all that is right and good for our citizens. Plus to their family says they give their time and support so that they me Sir. This we pray in your name. In men and then. And please join me in a moment of silence as we honest honor fallen. Firefighter Abner l dot tree. Last alarm Mar. 4th, 1954. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag. States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation. I it is full with liberty and justice for all. We basically ceded. >> Thank you reverend Morgan, we appreciate you thank you for being here with us today. Council members we have an agenda before us today, I'll entertain a motion for approval for the second. I mean we have a motion in second clerk police opening scene for voting. Council members please enter your votes. Seeing as all council members voted clerk please tally and announce the vote. The motion to approve the agenda passes unanimous. We also have before us a consent agenda. Clerk do we have any cards for the consent agenda. We do not okay I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. The second. Seeing as how we have a motion and second to approve the consent agenda and no requests for discussion clerk please open soon for voting. Council members please enter your votes. Singh's all council members voted clerk please stallion announce the vote. The motion to approve the consent agenda passes unions. Ok and we will move in next to our open forum clerk can you please read the rules. If you wish to address the City Council and so has been in public hearing. Rick was additional items listed on the agenda. He signed up with the clerk. Only the individuals wishing to speak recently opened sheet. Only city residents owns the property business owners in the city or their employees MAY speak. All issues discussed under open form must be limited to issues related to the city of St. Petersburg government. If you're speaking to an item on the agenda you MAY lose speak once during the open form when the wind comes up on the agenda in order to provide an opportunity for all citizens to address Council. Each individual be given 3 minutes to speak and after which the microphone will be muted. 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The state your name address for the record you have 3 minutes to address Council. If you want to go to the other podium. Thank you. >> I'm Evan Jones, a 2314 Woodlawn circle West in St. Petersburg and I spoke a couple weeks ago townhome development called woodland townhomes and I gave you some at that time. I was in his clearance I would have liked to have been at that time I was busy complimenting you and your leadership and how well you. Managed the rays situation and kept them engaged in. I give you a lot of credit for I'm being as far along as we are. But Woodlawn townhomes is a development on the corner of 16th Street and 22th Avenue North. And I'm really kind of at a loss to figure out. How we can do a better job in terms of the entrance in the exit to this development because and I've circled on your hand out. Greenwood Avenue which is a tree line. Media and is the roadway that's used to exit and entrance this enter. This development and if you look at the. That's highlighted much smaller down below you'll see 16th Street in 22th Avenue. People that are going to this townhome been development if they're coming from the West. The North where the South. They cannot entered this development except going through wood line. And so I'm representing the Woodlawn neighborhood in the association because this could create a safety concern because as you can see down below. There's a Parkway that's used by kids in the afternoon. And I'm just concerned about the safety and the in gress in the grass of traffic to this development. Currently as I understand from MISTER Tom Whalen your transportation site. Engineer or planner they're considering options because fire safety and ems and sanitation are not going to be able to go into this apartment excuse me. Townhome development and carry out their services without having to back their vehicles back out of this development and they're considering changing or altering the median in order to accomplish that what I would leave you with is what am I to do in terms of getting this in front of people because there's a a distinct possibility that this could be approved without the proper consideration. Thank you. >> My name is Denise poems I live at 1500 Greenwood Avenue North that the road that he was actually speaking about from where my house is I have a 100 feet in the front doctor Gallo said plastic surgeon, I share a back fence with him that property is up for the East right now I went over there today, they painted a lot more parking spaces available one actually crosses the sidewalks I'm not sure that's a legal parking space. But right now they have that sown for 10 spaces. What that means is that usually in front of my house I will have 45 cars parked all the time so they already have a lot of intrusive. Traffic into Woodlawn the way that they face at the end of my Street starts are green space. Every House that is around our triangle every other House has toddlers children under the age of going to school these children use that green space all the time which is what is supposed to be that's what makes our neighborhood particularly attractive to people that are moving here. The neighborhood is set such a wonderful place for families that at Halloween. The city closed off our streets. So that we can entertain the entire city, we love it. We love to have the children playing in the street, however, if there's all these other cars it makes for a very dangerous situation. It's a great place to live I've lived all over St. Petersburg sure Northeast this is the most community. Forward thinking neighborhoods that have ever lived in. And that's why we have so many young families that keep moving in and replenishing the population. But at the same time they need to be protected. We try to protect them people that are coming into the neighborhood I just feel like it's way too much stress. The resources that we have we're one block from 22th Avenue and 16th Street one of the most dangerous intersections, I've lived in this house for 30 years. I cannot tell you how many accidents we have responded to and car crash. The 22th Avenue 16th Street. So if you think of it that way the children that are playing out there riding their bikes playing ball. Our only one block away from 22th evident. Any other speakers internal speakers. Okay, we will close open farm and moved to awards and presentations and I will be joined this afternoon for a proclamation honoring flood awareness week with a planning and development director let's put that in a place so I will come down and join you. Council vice chair you're in charge. Why I brought that just that with detail because she's part of it all right and then to be here, thank you for being here. All councilmembers some I think I come before you almost every year with this proclamation. Flood awareness week The second week of every MARCH and it is put on by the National floodplain Association managers Association and the Florida Association. And so the goal of this is that every single day we are touching on something throughout that week that brings awareness to our community as it pertains to the risk of flooding. A city like the city of St. Petersburg surrounded by 60 miles of coast land with almost half of our city contained in the coastal high hazard. This is something that we really have to bring awareness to every day. But I'm always honored to be here working with was on this important issue and her entire team and so today I have the honor of bringing you the following proclamation. Whereas St. Petersburg has experienced severe weather in the past in the form of extreme rainfall or tropical system events resulting in flooding in coastal areas and this flooding has caused damage and flood losses to homes and buildings in all areas whether they are high-risk special flood hazard areas or low to moderate risk flood zones, and whereas St. Petersburg is a voluntary participant in the community rating system through the National flood insurance program and this provides residents with the opportunity to protect themselves against flood loss through the purchase of flood insurance at reduced insurance premium rates as well as setting higher regulatory standards to reduce the flood risk and potential flood damage to their property. And whereas the reduction of loss of life and property damage can be achieved when appropriate flood preparedness control and mitigation measures are taken before a flood. And whereas public education and awareness of potential weather hazards and methods of protection are critical to the health safety and welfare of residents. The floodplain managers Association has declared the week of 3/6/2023. As floodplain awareness week to provoke promote awareness and increase knowledge of flood risk. The availability of flood insurance, flood protection methods and how to prepare for emergencies. Now therefore I Council chair bring the gabbard on behalf of Kenneth t Welsh mayor of the city of St. Petersburg Florida. Do hereby proclaim Mar. 22 sorry, Mar. 6th through 12th, 2023 to be flood awareness week in St. Petersburg and we encourage all citizens to increase their knowledge of how to protect themselves and their properties from flooding. I would like to present this to you thanking you so much on behalf of City Council for all the work that you do. I know that I'm doing everything that is required when it comes to our floodplain and our community rating all of that is incredibly complicated. It is not easy by any means. Hopefully will be getting a professional flood plain manager for the city that particular job is actually open right now on the job board. So we're very excited about seeing that come to fruition and so we'll get was some help in all of this work but in the meantime. >> I want to thank you so much for everything you do for our city, thank you. Quickly thank you for your support we have made some changes this year to elevate our program. We do realize every day not just one week how important this is to our city and have a new team that will be led by our floodplain managers which we're starting some Next week so we're excited about that and we have 2 new floodplain coordinator positions which is one reason Patrick Garces with me today and Hannah wrobel it says are other staff person we've brought into the fold and they've been working our public outreach program and again try to elevate that and move us to an even better rating which were at a 5 right now which means 25% discount on anyone that has pay federal flood insurance so that's a program that is we participate in and we work very and we're hoping to get an even better rating this next year. So that's one of our goals for 2023. So thank you for your support and all we do appreciate it. And my family's with me here today salsa I did that for the bank them for their support because it came into town for Grand Prix all right so you have to hold that make us. >> Let's hold on one 2nd. >> Go I. Councilmember Hannah what's and I just want to say because your family is here. Liz is amazing not just with the flood issues but with everything she deals with I mean we depend on lives in her expertise for so many things. So we're glad that you share her with us in the city of St. Petersburg because I don't know what we would do without thinking said Amen. >> All right seeing no other council members we will go ahead and move on and we will move on to our item I one joined today by assistant city attorney can mccollum a good afternoon everybody. Here today on a settlement this is a workers compensation washout settlement was negotiated by our outside counsel which handles workers compensation. And I would just tell you about it briefly what we're dealing with The former employees a gentleman named Napoleon leveler as he's 69 years of age a former firefighter who left the city service a number of years ago, this is a hard presumption claim. It was found can pencil by the workers compensation course close to 20 years ago little twist in this case is that he's moved out of the country. So he's treatment in a country in Europe is tricky due to the language barrier in the billing issues and we are responsible for arrange for transportation for him to come back to the United States for treatment on a fairly regular basis. So accordingly. The total exposure on this matter going forward based on his life expectancy is close to $250,000 which includes medical. At an increased indemnity benefits to the disability increasing in the mileage claim for the travel which is over 75,000 as part of that component. The good news here is this has been negotiated $87,658 kind of an odd number due to a Medicare set aside number which is determined by the government on the federal level. But that is the total washout figure which includes attorneys fees costs the whole 9 yards and that will take MISTER Latter is off of the city's responsibility going forward if that means for the council's approval we be seeking. Your approval for this matter so we can be finished this case of approval. Thank you. >> All right, we have a motion in second. Seeing no. The quest for discussion clerk please a punishing for voting. Council members please enter your votes. Singh's all council members voted clerk please telling announce the vote. The motion to approve it. Grand Prix weekend as you to know. Okay new ordinances item e one. >> Are we ready for that room. >> Think we have staff in the back we'll check that typically okay reading it. So I guess up to counsel if you all want a full presentation with it being a new ordinance or in the move approval can MADAM I'm trying to be the title oh yes, well let's do that first son. Everybody ordinance number 11 51 dash v in Lawrence approving a vacation in the multi Street Warner these months generally it's 7 55th Avenue u s setting forth conditions for the vacation to become effective in providing for an effective date the public hearing for this item is Mar. The 23th and we do not have any speakers okay thank him. Move approval back in. We have a motion and second it seeing no requests to speak clerk please a punishing for voting. Council members enter your votes. Singh's all council members voted clerk please telling announced that. And chair of the motion to approve agenda item e one passes unanimously, very good. Thank you MISTER Boyland. All right we will move on to be too. Clerk read the title please where does numbers, 7.53 dash l in or in some in the future land use map. The comprehensive plan for the city of St. Petersburg Florida. My changing the future land use map designation for a 0.4 2 acre property located at for 23 for 29. 4.37. 11th Avenue South from planned development residential p r dash r 2 residential medium are in providing for repeal of conflict and ordinances in provisions, they're up and providing for an effective date public here for this item is Mar. The 23th and we do not have the speakers. >> Okay place. The second one is ordinance number 7.84 dash z and Lawrence amending the 5th official zoning map of the city of St. Petersburg Florida by changing the zoning of a 0.14 acre property located at for 23 for 29 for 37 11th Avenue South. For neighborhood traditional dash 2 anti dash 2 2 neighborhood suburban dash one ns in dash one new neighborhood suburban multifamily. Providing for repeal of conflict ordinances provisions their own and providing for an effective date the public here for this item is Mar. 23 and we do not have any speakers, okay. Move approval, second. All right we have a motion a second. Seeing no request for discussion clerk please open the machine for voting. Council members and your votes. Seeing as all council members voted clerk police telling announce the vote and chair the motion to approve agenda items. >> The 2 a and b passes unanimously. ok thank you moving into reports we have item f the participation agreement between the city and psta and we're joined today by transportation and parking management director Evan Maury MISTER Morning. Good afternoon chair members of City Council. I'm pleased to be here today to bring the opportunity for you this afternoon to partner with psta on a Grant opportunity mccall Defoe with is a senior planner with psta and she's joining me today to help answer any questions that there might. The you have a powerpoint but I just keep going. The proposed study is a joint effort primarily be to between psta in the city but also supported by fdot the primary purpose of the study this to determine options to improve. Transportation a decrease dependence on personal automobiles and improve access. The opportunities for South Saint Pete c area residents. The South Petersburg city area was established in 34. And the study will assist in the goal right revitalization through place based and people Bay strategies. The majority of the cra consist of census tracks which include high rates of persistent poverty. This the most dense environmental justice area in Pinellas County. And while improvements have been made in this area over the years. There remains more work to be done including to improve transportation access and safety. So it has occurred to me that the power point is in your backup, it is that I failed to send it to the clerk's I apologize for that so you have something to follow along ok I do not have it on the screen I appreciate that I was worried about people that were maybe paying attention on the eye. The figure that out as I was ok well if we don't have it please proceed so. It's essentially it's it's it's exactly what you have here no changes. So if. Here's some more statistics regarding some of the challenges faced by residents in the cra on slide 5. One of which I'd like to highlight being the high rate of households with no vehicle access. And if an area Franken transit service only on a few roads and lack sufficient safe walking biking routes. It's a very tough place to live with no access to personally own car which we need to change. Like magic there we go yes. Thank you MISTER Clerk that's on track. That contract. And I have controls. This map is from the cra plan that shows the major Street network but next bike network. Transit lines and stops within the area. The slide demonstrate some of the previous work that's been accomplished and will be considered as the study moves forward. And the study's first task includes public involvement activities unrelated deliverables. The city's second task is development of a vision plan consisting of several specific deliverables which build on the public engagement activities. The 3rd major task is the creation of an infant implementation plan and even include some design work which benefit you don't usually see in early studies. Several deliverables are also required at this phase of the study which are listed on the screen. A breakdown is included on the slide. And first will need if we received Council approval today than work with psta on a committee to help select consultant team to help us with this. Once that's underway than its 18 month duration for the study. And how's the study funded and how big is that it's a pretty big It is a significant effort and as such the investment is significant $400,000. However through the efforts of psta and city staff were able to submit a successful Grant application which resulted in receiving significant funds from the federal transit administration. The grant only requires a 10% local match and fdot has stepped up to provide half of that but psta in the city, splitting the remainder. So the city's contribution is only $10,000 for $400,000 study which is 2.5%. And with that administration recommends approval of the resolution which allow us to move forward on the mobility study and would be good but to take any questions and even with my mistake, we cut that to 5 minutes and 8. >> I would like to different this time to a council member driskell as the chair of psta I don't know if you have anything you want to add. >> Thank you chair. This is an incredibly important say hopefully we're about to embark on. >> That will. I'm really create some guidance for us on how that really make an impact on equity in transportation. Ips ye is committed to making sure that they are constantly. You know evolving to better serve. Everyone and including those who rely on transportation to get to work to get to school to get everywhere. This really zeroes in on on the largest segment of our population that. Tends to not have a vehicle and truly does rely on public transportation. This is going to help us get people from Point a to Point b better than ever before. So I'm I'm grateful to I'm Evan and his team and if you see a team for working together to bring it to this point and I'm happy to move approval of this item second. Thank you. Councilmember Curtis. Thank you MADAM Chair. Yeah, I just want to also say thank you Evan psta thank This is exciting I just wanted to point out again. Aaron I'm really glad you pointed out that an 18 month kind of process with some design and engineering you just don't see that very often I know certainly in my last 14 months you don't see them very often and so that's that's really exciting and I'm I'm happy to be a part of this and I'm I'm glad we're doing this and I know our community will be too. As as we move through Thank you MADAM Chair. Councilmember animates I just want to say a quick thing it's a $10,000 investment yeah right. For a huge project kudos to you guys for doing it. Thank you. What she he was my take away when I read the presentation, I mean that is just incredible what the leveraging of such a minimal amount of financial investment to do such a good for so many so well well done very very proud and thank you for your as the chair psta. And vice chair I believe it is also the treasurer and on the economic all right so we've got a whole lot of psta love that here. Lot of psta so we're very very proud of the work that you both do it there as well so thank you. All right so we have a motion and a second it and I don't see any other requests to speak Council member driskell and. I have for my homework before I was ok so then Muhammad is the second. All right please open the machine for voting. Council members and your votes Singh's all council members voted clerk please telling announce the vote. Thank you thank you, thank you. MISTER Murray. >> Next we will move on to f 2 approving state of Florida Department of economic opportunity federally funded community development block grant mitigation program sabree sippy an agreement did you just put all that in there so that I would have to tongue tie. I just want you to see it I have to read. Well welcome MISTER Prime and thank you for being here today. A pleasure as always and I mean Council ship they can present both an ef 2 and ef 3 on since their company and items. So f 3 is the task order to the agreement. Yes, okay very good. Okay so we are pleased to bring these 2 items to us. 2 City Council specifically, this was one of projects that came along as part of the beast and see assessment. As we mentioned we will do these put on an analysis and these reviews to help us develop really good understanding of to project requirements that helps us Dan go ahead and pursue Grant funding given this not be a slight witness that a foot follow it. And this is a good example of that the first agreement item f 2 is Grant's receiving just over $2 million which we've also as part of that council member we would not that we also receiving a $1.5 million grant from another agency, Mike would need in this one from a state agency in a federal agency able to match the funding. As the matching requirements to each other. So essentially the construction phase of this project will be paid hopefully fully by the crimes unless construction costs continues to escalate the wind is right now. But we'll cautiously optimistic on that the second item f 3 released to the professional services with any crimes weed will have to do compliance. In this case, it's about 14% of the total project costs. But it also takes into consideration. The environmental testing testing requirements for the disposal of any dredge material as well. So while that 40% is in the us in percentage of that would have been there. I would have always been a cost because it would have been a city project. So in general with this project with the 2 grants but this probably getting what the future and that will hopefully bring into you'll soon. The construction phase should be covered completely just some minus costs on the city site to cover inspection project management and compliance requirements with that out for approval. >> Very good to remember just Thank you I just want to think thank you MISTER Prime in for all the work that you have been doing on this this is a guy who not is an expert in his field, but he also knows how to find the money to get things time. We have been talking about this project for the lake has been I'm on my priorities list for a very long time and and it's been wonderful to be on this journey with you. You know working hard to get the money that we need to do it needs to be done to make sure the bear Lake is healthy. And that we are able to reduce. The flooding from like mcgorry which most of us probably know common problem and one we can solve it takes a lot of money but. We just have a wonderful team that knows how to put together a plan and make a real case to get the funding that's needed said thank you. Councilmember animates. Thank you and I council member driskell statements I will say looking at this and looking at the cost of dredging how expensive it is and people don't realize how expensive it is and you've done a fantastic job of leveraging Grant and making sure we're matching with the federal funds. But that going to help the dredging it's going to help flooding in. >> Water quality I right those that's huge. And if we can do this for everything we can you know he would be great if we could do it for so many I'm so excited about this and seeing what comes out of this in the improvements and who knows maybe we can get more of these dead. Throughout the city. Council vice chair fix Sanders. Thank you I love to concur with my colleague it especially with the lake and Gore them very Fleming Lake going being in district 5 and that is also one of my priorities is to hopefully be able to get this done in the maintenance of all of the city lakes I want thank you and please know that we will be conversing really soon so that we can see if we can get some attention paid to leave the door so I do appreciate you thank you so much. Thank you. And again. I don't believe we have a move approval. Thank you. For both. Yes and f 3. We have to do 2 in 3. I think you and I have to and I move approval for f for both of them. Second. >> All right we have a motion in a second. Council members enter your votes. Singh's all council members voted clerk please telling announce the vote. All right thank you thank you. MISTER Prime annual Shiite a christ-like. >> We will move in now to new business. And we will start item d one. This a referral to the housing land use and Transportation Committee for a discussion considering the funding and implementation of a citywide rebates for residential rehab proven second. We have a motion in second. Saying it's not there's no Speak clerk please open the machine for voting. House members and your votes. Things all council members voted clerk please telling announce the vote. The motion to approve or deny the one passed. >> Item g to council member driskell thank you for this item I am respectfully requesting city to City Council approved the moving of the item review of the conceptual future meter reclaim water fee structure from the health energy resilience and sustainability committee. 2 the 4/13/2023, public services and infrastructure Committee for discussion and further request that due to the conversation conservation and Byron mental aspects of the topic that it remain on the health energy resilience and sustainability Committee for future discussion after the Apr. 13th meeting this is a staff request in a move approval, second. Councilmember Curtis. Thank you MADAM Chair. This MAY seem like a really simple question I just want to make sure I'm understanding this correct. So it will go to psni for 4/13/2023, but then also stay on. And help or hurt committee. Yeah, no reason to sail to find me. There's a discussion that that really belongs and psni but this is a very long term conversation and so I would like it to live in hers. But. Do a little temporary stop at ps night before coming back to hers. Thank you very much and thank you for the clarification I just want to make sure I was getting it getting it right. So thank you, MADAM Vice chair fix Sanders we thank you and I was going to ask the same question so are we looking to get any action done in psni on Apr. 3rd is the reason why stay specific. >> Is MISTER Tankersley with us still. This is what was the question. >> Finally because it is day They're going to be any action items that the committee has to take rtd's just a discussion and I think it's going to be a discussion I don't think we're prepared right now for an action item I think there is some updated related related to the potential for metering that is relevant. But I'm not sure there will be an action item request, okay, okay all right, thank you. And correct me if I'm wrong the way that I understand it I'm just following the issue is that the psni conversation is more kind of death. The infrastructure piece of it. The hers is more the resiliency sustainability side of it is that kept so I do and MISTER Tankersley is back if we have any questions for him. No no you're fine. Yeah, so what was the question. I'm we're discussing the new business for the metering to move to date specific psni and then remain on the hers referral for ongoing discussions so do you have anything you'd like to add to so I I think I also heard that whether this could be the action that we're that was a question. Yes, yes, and so no we're not going to be asking for any action but we're bringing to you some additional information that will inform our decisions moving forward. Okay very good any other questions for MISTER Tankersley. >> All right thank you for being out here we appreciate it. All right so do we have a motion Clark. Yes, okay, we have a motion a second. Please open the shame for voting. Council members and your votes. Singh's all council members voted clerk please telling announce the vote. That motion to approve item g 2 passes unanimously. G 3 council member might marry. Thank you, MADAM Chair respectfully requesting referral to the economic and workforce development committee or of a relevant committee reported discussions on the Florida scorecard specifically in creation of a citywide specific met metrics to be included an updated regularly and I move approval, second. >> Seeing is no council members said desire to speak clerk please open the machine preventing. Council members in your votes. Things all council members a vote a clerk please telling announce the vote. Sure the motion to approve agenda item g 3 passes unions. Or and this is mine this is a referral to the housing land use and Transportation Committee to provide an update on the implementation of the complete streets plan of approval second. We have a motion in second saying no request to speak clerk please open the machine for vetting council members enter your votes. Things all council voted clerk please telling announce the vote. Sure the motion to approve agenda item g 4 passes unanimously. All right g 5 vice chair fix Sanders. Thank you respectfully requesting referral to the public services and infrastructure Committee for an update regarding the funding of the large item pick-up software system. Approval. Second. We have a motion a second seeing no request to speak clerk punishing for voting. Council members in your votes. Things all council members voted clerk please telling announce the vote. Sure the motion to approve agenda item g 5 passes. >> g 6 council member Curtis thank you MADAM Chair. Respectfully requesting City Council approval to move the referral item concerning the review of the annual action plan from the budget finance and taxation committee to the housing land use and Transportation Committee. This is a refer this referrals a staff formally submitting this business item as a method of informing City Council and I move approval, second. >> And that item I apologize actually g 7 that you just read. No he said they say at type over here on my side, so I apologize, ok very good. >> No requests to speak clerk punishing for voting. Council members please and your votes. Things all council members voted clerk please telling announce the vote. We have a motion to approve agenda item g 6 passes unions. Okay and then she's 7 council member driskell. Thank you for this item, I'm respectfully requesting or referral to the public services and infrastructure Committee for a discussion on updating the city code related to domestic equipment. Move approval. Thank you. Council member or a council vice chair fix Sanders, thank you and I was really pleased to see this because we are working on several things are going to domestic equipment so. This is a general that they should go into psni because I think that they're going to be several changes to the code that will be discussing so thank you so much and that what council member, I'm just going on that. Thank you know being think you councilmember Hannah and given I've also had people contact me on the issue and I was told that This item was pending and in the same boat so we're going to be having a robust discussion. Yes, we win. A council member got us, thank you, MADAM Chair I would just Council member just go thank you for bringing this forward it is a broad definition and. Of the 4 neighborhood meetings I've been to in the last 10 days this was probably a dozen of my questions. So I appreciate you bringing this forward thank you MADAM Chair. And council member driskell. Thank you well now I know who the city attorney was talking. When I was told that there were different issues under the umbrella sick of point counts and and really it was it was it's been determined that this part of the code is. I'm quite outdated and updating it is going You know creason better policy in many in many regards so, I'm looking forward to the discussion. Thank you. All right, we have a motion in a second. Clerk please up a machine for voting. Council members enter your votes. Things all council members voted clerk please telling announce the vote. Sure the motion to approve. Agenda item g 7 passes you. We will now move on to our Council committee report action items and take up h one. Feb. 9th 23 ut action item presented by council member Floyd. Thank Yes, we have an action item from our ut meeting that was on Feb. 9th. We had resolution approving the mayor's reappointment of. Missed geralyn Jerry Evans, the office of the commissioner of the Housing authority of the city of St. Petersburg for a second four-year term. The resolution provides an effective date and I move approval back to you. We have a motion a second. Singh's no requests to speak clerk please open the machine for voting. Please enter your votes. Singh's all council members voted clerk police telling announce the vote. And chair of the motion to approve agenda item. Each one a passes unanimously. All right council members will that concludes all the business we can take up right now until 3 o'clock when we will start our public hearings. Council will stand in recess. >> will cause City Council back to order and we will take up our public hearings starting with item Ga one approving the home American rescue allocation plan. Clerk can you please read the title. There's no title for that one okay. We're joined today by senior housing development coordinator Stephanie land. Welcome. Thank you good afternoon chair members of City Council. The item before you today relates to the home American rescue plan funding also known as home a r p. >> Late 2021. Hud Grant agreement to the city for 3,000,042 59. And in DECEMBER of that year. Us City Council accepted the grant and approved a supplemental appropriation and mid 2022 had informed us although the funds did not need to be expended until 2030 our plan needs to be to them by Mar. 31th of 20 23. So the end of this month, so we've been working with our consultant way trim to hold a public input forums and to develop a draft plan. We held a public hearing in front of the affordable housing Advisory Committee on that draft plan now we are forwarding the plan to you for approval and to hopefully included as an amendment of a substantial amendment to our 2021, 22 annual action plan. They do Warner here from way tram to give you a short power point before the public hearing. That will just explain a little bit about how our 3 million is to be allocated the activities in the qualifying populations. Thank you. Afternoon members of City Council. Again my name is Amanda a planner with we trend we've been assisting the city with the preparation of the home at a r p allocation plan. Islam point over most of information on the slide, however, I will again summarize that under the American rescue The city of St. Petersburg expects to receive about 3 million in rp funding. This is under and the home investment partnerships program which is a grant program that the city already has received funding from in the past so this isn't really a sub grant program under the home investment partnerships program. As a requirement of receiving these funds the city has to substantially amend its fiscal year 2021 annual action plan for cdbg and home. The home a r p allocation plan would be included as an attachment to that plan, but it needs to be substantially amended to include the attachment so that's what we have before you today. So the eligible activities under the home air of allocation our rental housing so affordable rental housing tenant based rental assistance supportive services, non congregate shelters, nonprofit operating capacity building assistance and then administration planning. The red numbers on the screen on the screen before you are caps that hood has placed on this funding so only 5% can be allocated to nonprofit operating or capacity building assistance and 15% administration planning so just to be aware that there are caps on some of the eligible activities. In addition to the eligible activities the spending is specifically targeted towards qualifying populations. Those qualifying populations are persons that are homeless or at risk of homelessness as defined by the mckinney-vento act. Persons fleeing or attempting to flee domestic violence dating violence assault stalking or human trafficking and persons at greatest risk of housing instability. Also veterans or families of veterans that meet criteria, those 4 criteria that i mentioned are also to benefit from the home a r p funding, allocation. So in order to get input agencies that serve these qualifying populations we reached out with several needs assessment These were held in late NOVEMBER and mid DECEMBER. 2 of them were held online and virtually one in the morning and afternoon and then we had an a City Hall room, just downstairs here for anyone else that that would like to attend our participation in consisted of continuum of care members housing and public service providers. Again the agencies that that serve those qualifying populations we had about 30 people attend and they were representing about 20 different organizations. So we did have a fairly good turnout for those meeting. Additionally we held a public hearing that was on Jan. 17th again that was with the affordable housing it not exceed they hack affordable housing advisory committee. That that public hearing was held in mid-JANUARY and then we started a 15 day public comment period on the Merapi allocation plan that was held starting in FEBRUARY and ending yesterday. So on so that 15 day public comment period advertise the draft. A draft was available on the city's As well as at the housing and community development Department today where we're having a second public hearing with with with you. So this is really to approve that plan and turn it around and final form not for submission to hud. >> So during those consultation needs Forums that we hold. We heard a lot about the need for support of services specifically wraparound public services including but not limiting it limited to rental and financial assistance for homeless prevention. Additionally we heard a lot about the need for affordable rental Obviously that continues to be a not just in the city but in Florida in general. And we also heard the need for nonprofit capacity building in support of those support of wrap around services. I will say that with affordable rental housing where where I'm proposing is funding for that activity on including the construction of. This is an estimate 20 new affordable housing units for those qualifying population household and that would be layered with other funding sources so looking at other grants to help match it and layer with that. The next slide shows the proposed budget budget breakdown and so these are all of the out eligible activities under the home air p program as you can see the activities that are bolded are the activities that the city is proposing tough and so supportive services we have 484,008 27 development of affordable rental housing 2 million nonprofit capacity building again that would be capacity building to assist those supportive wraparound approximately 250,000 and that administration and planning 400,000. As you can see the breakdown of the percentages with with the fund would be eligible activities that have caps where proposing to use the full 5% available for nonprofit capacity building and then for administration planning, we're proposing to use 13% of the available 15% on that funding and that gets you to the total 3 million $36,659 available Grant funds. And without today again we're asking you to approve the home a r p allocation plan approved a substantial amendment to the fiscal year 2021 annual action plan to include that home a r p allocation plan as an attachment authorize the mayor doesn't need to submit the plan amendment to hood so we have to formally submit this to receive the funding and execute all the necessary documents to implement the plan an amendment and provide an effective date and again this does also require public hearing. Thank you. Thank you. Councilmember Hannah what's. Thank you so much for your presentation I actually have a question on the The. Where we talk about the point in time counts. First I guess so everyone understands you explain a little bit what that point in time counts are for homelessness and by that Sure absolutely so the point-in-time count is a count that held on one particular Every year on its the homeless population within the co see which is the continuum of care the continuum of care that cover Petersburg is a larger continuum of care that covers the region so that Petersburg Clearwater largo and Pinellas County. And that point in time count is really a snapshot of what the homeless population is at that time. For the home a r p allocation plan as the recommended data source that had recommends to use for that we've also provided a little bit of supplemental homeless data and there as well for for St. Petersburg but in general the data provided as for the larger continuum of care showing gaps in service delivery right. And so. You had 1985 homeless individuals I think you have a scrivener's error here okay, talks and just because it's the draft I know that you can probably make the changes but you put 723 individuals are black and. >> 1130 individuals are black so I think when it's supposed to be white and Yes I'm thank you for catching that yes I see no. We hope that we will correct that prior to submit yeah that was the one thing I got from that but I really appreciate and that the this document shows how much is done with the homeless programs here and also talks a lot about the providers and homeless leadership alliance of Pinellas and what they do and I know any Foster is the expert at this but reading this it was really helpful to see everything that's being done so thank you so much, thank you. The camels approval second. We have a motion a second. And do we have any cards on this item we do know. Okay all right seeing is how we have a motion a second clerk please open machine for voting. Council members please enter your votes. Seeing as how council members voted clerk please telling announce the vote. And sure the motion to approve his in item Ga one passes unions. Ok we will move on now to Jay too. Which is the city initiated text amendment to the l the pertaining to amending in tm one. There are 2 ordinances a and b so Clark, if you can read the title together. When his number 5.40 dash h and Lawrence of the city St. Petersburg Florida amending its land development regulations. Ending the use metrics in section 10016.0 2 0.1 of the city code. Any parking requirements in neighborhood traditional mix, residential, in t m zoning districts and amending the definition of dwelling multifamily and many section 20016.0 1 0.5 to allow assists redoing units in the neighborhood traditional dash 3. An t dash 3 zoning district. Any section 20016.0 1, 5, regulating the nt him dash one zoning district, including provisions related to pluck ability. Lot standards in coverage maximum density and intensity. Setbacks entrances building and site design landscape even parking amends section, 20016.0 2, 0, 0.6 to allow accessory dwelling units in the neighborhood suburban dash one and tease and as dash one and n yes dash 2 zoning districts and many section, 20016.0 3, 0, providing for the missing middle housing density bonus in the neighborhood suburban multifamily Ennis him zoning districts. Any section, 20016.0 6 0 providing free missing middle housing density bonus in the corridor residential traditional crt zoning districts. The many section. 20016.0 8, 0 providing for the missing middle housing density bonus in the corridor commercial traditional cct zoning districts and then section, 16.20 point 0, 9, 0 providing for the missing middle housing density bonus in the quarter commercial suburban cc as owning districts and then section, 16.90 0, 2, 0.3 creating a different mission for missing middle housing providing for severability and providing for an affected date, public here for the signs is Mar., the 23th. >> Ordinance number second second second concern the cuts that can come here. Ordinance number 7.85 dash z and once in the needy. Official zoning map of the city of St. Petersburg Florida, changing the zoning designation of coughing parcels the city identified in the attached exhibit a that are located 175 feet from the central line of a designated major Street. And and have direct kind of 2 d 2 such streets adjacent to a public ally and compliant with rebel it. That coastal high has it very limitations for neighborhood traditional dash one in t dash one and neighborhood additional dash 2 in. The neighborhood traditional mix residential dash one. Ntm dash one providing for repeal of conflict in ordinances in provisions thereof providing for conditions providing for severability and providing for an effective date second public hearing of this item is Mar. The 23th. >> And council so we have the 2 items together and the reason that I have the clerk read them together was because our presentation for them is together. And then legal can you speak the conversation that we had as to voting on them together. >> the ordinances are linked. I'm kind of intrinsically linked and. The conversation on them kind of can't have one without the other so we're doing those together and the zoning is conditioned on the development regulation change anyway, so we together makes most sense. Thanks. Thank you. We're joined today by urban design historic preservation manager Derek Hill boring for presentation. All right, thank you thank you for the introduction, I feel like you just got a presentation reading those ordinance titles but we're going to be today is we're going to walk you through the 2 applications I'm ready to go with the presentation slides it. So we wanted to do is just highlight a couple things for anybody who is either here in the room or watching at home. The purpose of this first reading and first public hearing is to present the information we are required by state statute to conduct 2 public hearings for the content of this package and so one thing that is really important to staff today is for council to discuss some of the items that are going to be presented to you as recommendations from the commission. We also have a couple other items for you to consider in any feedback or information you can give us today on those items is really important because we still have some time to correct those items and bring you a clean updated application packet for Mar. 23th. So you can see on the screen here we have some date so we are required to turn Council information around by Mar. 10th. And then adds to Leeds deadline is Mar. 17th. So just getting into the substance of We do have a long time line the missing middle discussion that goes back to the earliest roots in 2017. But more substantively starting in 2019 with adoption of the atm. One zoning category. And as you know moving through covid and then a Saint Pete 2050 plan and also are numerous committee discussions about how to apply the nt m one zoning and whether the text of what was adopted in 39 should be amended. That question was resolved. This year and so this is now the map amendment that we are bringing to you map amendment application zm 15. And just to recap so missing middle housing. Described it's it's a term that is used to describe small scale residential multifamily building types. We have a number of examples on the screen here that are from within St. Petersburg there are different types are forms that these buildings can take and of what we are talking about in terms of missing middle in the context of this zoning category our building types we're sites that have 2 to 4. Multifamily units for building. When we started working on the map amendment. And going out meeting with the community getting feedback on those map amendments there were some things that came up that we felt were important to include as amendments to the existing nt m one zoning category that was again adopted in 2019. What was adopted in 2019 you can see here shown on the screen. This is just a highlight of the sub of the ntm one in what is regulated in terms of design standards and then we also have the applicability criteria shown on the right side of the slide. In going into that there are number of text amendments that we described in more detail in your package. Some of those are clerical some of those are minor and we have those highlighted here but we want to focus on the other items that we have on the right side of the screen starting with a historic preservation setbacks in floor area ratio. So looking at this chart. What we are proposing is that for properties that are in local and national register districts or are individually listed. That they have a change to the setback. Requirement and specifically what we are recommending is that rather than in qualifying under the reduced ntm line building setbacks they would continue to be subject to the existing neighborhood traditional zoning. Category setbacks which we have highlighted there in red and then also the same would apply to the floor area ratio. So rather than increase the floor area ratio allowance which happens within tm one. It would be limited to the same 0.4. Plus 0.2 bonus that exist in the neighborhood traditional zoning category today. And there is a map. A question that came up as a recommendation from the commission that is separate from this tax amendment recommendation and will go over a little bit later in the presentation. The next item that is in the text amendment is to include a missing middle density bonus. In our mixed use multifamily categories and so you can see those identified there. Currently crt one. Cct one ccs one and n s and one all allow multifamily units and you can see there's some variation there 24 units per acre we're 15 units per acre and they do currently allow workforce housing bonus. The proposal under this application would be include a missing middle density bonus. So if they have this commercial multifamily mixed use category. They have an option. They can develop under the existing zoning they have today or they can develop under the ntm one development standards. But the benefit for them going to the ntm one development standard is they can up to 30 units per acre. So you can see in the chart they already are allowed to do. 2415 plus 8 workforce, housing. This just gives them a different development option to choose from. In the discussions about the map amendment. There was also some public feedback about existing conditions are existing nonconforming situations where buildings have a front loaded driveway and parking in the front. And really no physical space at the rear 2 adaptive Lee reuse or convert their existing building to add additional units and so we were asked to take a look at that we did come up with a plan that we think works for those not conforming situations and that tax language is in the package. Relates to coastal high hazard areas. There were some parcels that right Dana fight as partially in the coastal high hazard area. And the code language really didn't have any. Direct way of dealing with those partial situations and so we wanted to clarify the language. We took a look at the parcels that were partially included. We ran some calculations and the reason that 75% was selected. And 75% is to say that 75% or more of the parcel is located outside of the coastal high hazard area. The reason 75% was selected is because by doing that it didn't change the number of units could be put onto the parcel and so we had to be careful about not increasing. The number of units within the coastal high hazard area. And we don't have a slide to show this but the 5th item that we included is the way that the landscape ordinance is written. There was some confusion about whether the multifamily or wanting to unit landscaping requirements would apply to a missing middle building that was 3 or 4 units. So we wanted to clarify that language and say that if the building is 3 or 4 units. It is subject to the one in 2 unit landscaping standard rather than the commercial standard that applies to. Larger projects. Okay so moving into the second application which is the zoning map amendment. The first thing that we wanted to highlight is the level of service standards before we get into the specifics of the map amendment and parcels themselves. We wanted to point out that in the city. Staff report to the community planning and preservation Commission. We include a level of service analysis. Which has more detail than we're going to talk about here, but you can see from the slide. We have page number references to this issue through the meeting. If you need to refer to that. In addition to the level of service analysis that is provided in the staff report. We also consulted with the city's engineering department to receive some specific feedback about. Level of service and particularly as it relates to storm water. So the first thing that we looked at was in potential change from neighborhood traditional to neighborhood traditional month and next residential. There is a increase of 10% allowance to the impervious surface. Ratio. So we asked engineering to take a look at that 10%. Their conclusion is that the 10% is the minimum us and would not have any major impact to the storm water calculations that they review. They also looked to see what that change have any measurable impact on the modeling that was performed for the Saint Pete water plan that they've been putting together and again their conclusion was that it would have no impact on the modeling that had already been performed. The other thing that we wanted to point out is that the city does have a tiered storm water fee. Any project under and t m one zoning that is proposing to increase impervious surface ratio is going to potentially move into a higher rate fee on that tier system and could potentially be paying double the monthly storm water fee based on. The site plan that they're proposing. And then finally we wanted to point out that under the storm water section on page 11 of the cppcc staff report. It refers to 3 or more units that phrase in the first censured say 3 or more lots referring to platted lots and we'll will provide a little more description in clarification in the City Council memo for the Mar. 23th meeting. I'm moving into the map amendment itself there are applicable any criteria. So we want to walk you through the analysis that we performed