City Council Presentation Meeting (2025-03-27)

Page 1 of 4 City Council Regular Meeting March 27, 2025 The City Council of the City of Titusville, Florida met in regular session in the Council Chamber of City Hall, 555 South Washington Avenue, on Thursday, March 27, 2025. Mayor Connors called the City Council meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. Present were Mayor Andrew Connors, Vice-Mayor Herman A. Cole, Jr., Col USAF Retired, and City Council Members Jo Lynn Nelson, Megan Moscoso, and Dr. Sarah Stoeckel. Also present were City Manager Scott Larese, City Attorney Richard Broome, and City Clerk Wanda Wells. Assistant City Clerk Jolynn Donhoff completed the minutes of the meeting. Mayor Connors requested a moment of silence. He then led those present in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. City Clerk Wells read the procedures for public comment and participation. xxx SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS & PRESENTATIONS Employee of the Month - February 2025 - No action was requested. The employee was not available to attend the meeting. This item would be rescheduled for the regular City Council meeting on April 22, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. (Special Recognitions & Presentations Meeting). Following the meeting, Fire & Emergency Services Chief John Hustoles advised that the Employee of the Month did not wish to be recognized at a meeting; therefore, it would not be rescheduled. xxx Fiscal Year (FY) 2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) - No action was requested. Zach Chalifour of the Accounting firm of James Moore & Company gave a presentation on the annual audit of the City’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR) for Fiscal Year 2024. Information highlighted during the presentation included: • Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) Certificate of Achievement • Notable Items: Transmittal letter, expanded supplemental information, statistical section • Independent Auditors’ Reports (several) • General Fund balance history, total assigned/unassigned fund balance, expenditures and transfer outs, percentages, GFOA minimum recommendations, etc. • Enterprise Funds history • Pension Funds Vice-Mayor Cole indicated having substantive experience with budgets and audits. He commended the City and staff on the clean audit of the FY 2024 budget.

Regular Meeting March 27, 2025 Page 2 of 4 Member Stoeckel and Mr. Chalifour discussed her questions on what criteria was used to judge or identify whether the City had a clean budget, which was based on evaluating financial statements and the numbers for assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses, whether the accounting firm anticipated changing how they performed their work simultaneous with the changes happening at the State and Federal level (referring to current actions being taken by D.O.G.E or the Department of Government Efficiency under the current President of the United States), local governments being efficient with funding, having significant transparency in preparing and adopting the City’s budget, etc. Member Moscoso and Mr. Chalifour discussed that the County was responsible for auditing the budget of the North Brevard Economic Development Zone (NBEDZ). Member Moscoso requested receiving a copy of this audit. xxx Canaveral Heights Presentation - No action was requested at this meeting. Instead, a presentation was scheduled to provide the status of the Canaveral Heights Comprehensive Plan Amendment and Land Development Regulations (pending changes for a later proposal). Then, at the Regular City Council meeting of March 27, 2025 at 6:30 p.m., a request was scheduled on the City Council agenda to schedule hearings for the Canaveral Heights Comprehensive Plan Amendments. Background information from the Report to Council on page No. 6 of the Council agenda packet indicated that the amendment included a revised Objective and Policies in the Future Land Use Element of the Comprehensive Plan. The amendment addressed development and redevelopment incentives in the Urban Mixed Use (UMU) land use category (Canaveral Heights). On April 27, 2022, the Council directed the staff to propose a strategy whereby certain portions of the Draft 2040 TitusvilleTomorrow Comprehensive Plan may be incorporated into the adopted Comprehensive Plan. Staff recommended adopting four separate amendments, which included Mobility (Transportation), Housing and Historic Preservation, Land Use, and Environmental. The City's consultant, Kimley-Horn (formerly Canin Associates of Orlando), held a public engagement meeting on February 4, 2023, and presented draft Goals, Objectives and Policies (GOPs) to the Future Land Use, Transportation and Housing Elements of the Comprehensive Plan. The consultant would also present draft Land Development Regulations to help implement the GOPs. Environment related Comprehensive Plan amendments would be addressed as part of a future project. The consultant subsequently presented various iterations of the Comprehensive Plan amendments and Code changes to the City Council at the March 28, 2023, April 25, 2023, and May 23, 2023, Council presentation meetings. On August 8, 2023, the Council directed the staff to obtain public input on the draft Comprehensive Plan amendments and proposed changes to the Land Development Regulations. Public meetings were held on October 5, 2023, September 28, 2024, and February 6, 2025. More than 100 members of the public participated. Community Development Director Brad Parrish highlighted additional information on how the project initially began (altogether) in 2017 with the City Council and public engagement, coming-

Regular Meeting March 27, 2025 Page 3 of 4 up with a vision statement that would eventually lead to having new Comprehensive Plan, Council later deciding to drop (discontinue) some of the prior components identified for a new Comprehensive Plan and borrowing and adopting some of the parts or plan language the City Council desired adopting into the current Comprehensive Plan, such as the Downtown policies, Commercial Corridors, Gateway, Housing, Transportation, and Environmental policies, etc. From here, the next step included amending a part of the Comprehensive Plan related to Housing, as well as Future Land Use policies and Transportation policies, specifically intended for a neighborhood that the City and City staff presently referred to as Canaveral Heights. Community Development Director Parrish continued and highlighted a substantive amount of information from the Council agenda packet and information provided in visual and text slides prepared by the City’s project consultant or Kimley-Horn (Engineering, planning, and design consultants). He also highlighted current planning to move forward with the project that would require the City Council’s consideration at future scheduled meetings. Member Nelson and staff discussed her questions on expanding the Urban Mixed Use (UMU), concerns for reducing setbacks and landscape buffers consistent with the building on a subject site, etc. Member Moscoso discussed comparing professional planning tools used in Tallahassee, where she recently visited, were being used in Titusville. She also commented on concerns for gentrification in older established neighborhoods. Additionally, Member Moscoso and staff discussed her questions on page No. 44 of the Council agenda packet and the density-intensity-height bonus incentives program, getting an additional 5-units if certain criteria were met, the importance of having well defined criteria to offset developers taking advantage of vague rules, etc. Staff advised page No. 44 contained draft language for the Comprehensive Plan, but page No. 71 of the Council agenda packet had specific draft regulations that Council may later adopt, whose purpose would be used to implement the Comprehensive Plan. Member Stoeckel and staff discussed her questions on the components of the soon to be proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment(s), which consisted of text amendments expanding the Urban Mixed Use (UMU) and a related map amendment, without rezoning. She and staff also discussed clarifying questions of other land use and zoning designations, overlay areas, properties that could utilize new standards, etc. The use would always need to be consistent. Lastly, Member Moscoso commented on the outside of buildings having a unique or aesthetic look. For example, where an elevator shaft might be located, she indicated that she desired the external façade to be aesthetic in appearance. xxx PETITIONS AND REQUESTS FROM THE PUBLIC PRESENT Toni Shifalo read from a personal notebook and information that was discussed during November 2023, there was a study of street category designations and locations for the TitusvilleTomorrow

Regular Meeting March 27, 2025 Page 4 of 4 project, which also discussed an overlay area(s), Category B and Category C roads, an indication she was concerned for her neighborhood, the State Live Local Act or local ordinances affecting a lot of the infill areas, much of her neighborhood was built prior to 2000, most of the properties were not homestead tax exempt, there were many vacant dwellings, concern that new legislation incentives that might give builders too much latitude to build too high next to one story homes, etc. Stan Johnston distributed information. He commented on concerns for a trespass warning he felt was issued to him erroneously, concerns for stormwater or drainage concerns, fraud, etc. xxx Motion: Member Stoeckel moved to adjourn the meeting at 6:23 p.m. Member Stoeckel seconded the motion and it carried unanimously. ______________________________ Andrew Connors, Mayor ATTEST: ____________________________________ Wanda F. Wells, City Clerk