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MARCH 5, 1973
Tio: BOARD 01: ADJUSTMENT CITY OF CAPE CAN,% 1 RAI. MET ON .MARCH 5,
CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA AT
1973 AT THE, CITY IIAL,L, I05 POLK AVENUE, ,
7:35 P.M.
' CALLED TO ORDER BY CHAIRMAN LEO NICHOLAS.
1.111: MEETINGWAS
ROLL. WAS CALLED BY THE DEPUTY CLERK*
'PRESENT: MR. NICHOLAS, MR. MACLAY, FIR. BALOUGH,
N11i.. GRAEFE,, MR. MEGUTAR
PLANNING BOARD MEMBER MR. VAN WAGNER
.ASSISTANT CITY. ATTORNEY RICHARD SCOTT
DEPUTY CLERK.- ELSIF. FRAZIER
MINUTES OF TIIE, FEBRUARY 19, 1973 MEETING WERE APPROVED AS
.PRESENTED.SPECI' L Excu'ri_ RPUU
'ITEM 1. REQUF.ST'72-11 FIRST AINTERSTATE DEVELOPMENT CORP.
MR. NICHOLAS REVIEWED THE FILE AND NOTED THAT EVF.IITIIING WAS
IN ORDER AND THAT TIIE REQUEST IIAD BEEN APPROVED BY THE ZONING AND
PLANNING BOARD:.
' TTACIIIiDLIiTTFR FROM FIRST INTER-
MR, NICHOLAS THEN READ THE AFOR A CONTINUANCE FOR 30 DAYS -
STATE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ASKING
FIR, NICHOLAS ASKED THAT THE LETTER BE MADE PART OF THE MINUTES.
MR. JOAN STARLING, ATTORNEY REPRESENTING FIRST, INTERSTATE,
THEN TOOK TIIE FLOOR AND REVIEWED TIIE REASONS FOR ASKING FOR,CONTIN-
UANCF INCLUDING A REQUEST FROM MR.ANDERSON TO RELOCATE THE BOAT
STORAGE FACILITIES.
STARLING IF IT WOULD BE PREMATURE
MR. BALOUGi1 TIIEN ASKED FIR.
HANGES AT THIS TIME AND MR. STARLING STATED THAT
TO DISCUSS THESE C
{{E THOUGHT IT WOULD' RE PREMATURE TO STATE DEFINITLY ON THESE MATTERS
AT THE PRESENT TIME.
'AFTERLENGTHLY DISCUSSION FROM THE FLOOR, PRO AND CON AS TO
, THE REQUEST,'A QUESTION.. AROSE AS TO THE PURPOSE Oil THIS MEETING. MR.
NICHOLAS STATED THAT,THE PURPOSE WAS TO HOLD A PUBLIC BEARING TO DETER-
MINE WHETHER OR NOT THE CITY WOULD GRANT PERMISSION TO FIRST INTERSTATE
DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO BUILD RPUD IN R1 ZONING.
THE QUESTION THEN AROSE AS TO THE LEGALITY OF THIS PROCEEllING
IN LIGHT OF PREVIOUS PROCEEDINGS, MR. NICHOLAS THEN REVIEWED THE STEPS
THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN,INCLUDING THE APPEAL FOR ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION
HELD ON NOVEMBER 6, 1972. HE THEN ASKED TBE CITY ATTORNEY AS TO HIS
OPINION OF THE LEGALITY OF THIS .MEETING., MR. SCOTT ANSWERED THAT AS
THIS BOARD HAD UPHELD TIIF. BUILDING OFFICIAL AND AS THERE HAD BEEN NO
APPEAL BY ANY PARTY WITHIN 30 DAYS THAT T11E MATTER 01' APPROVAL BY THIS
BOARD WAS PRECEDENT IN T1115 CASE. MR. BALOUGII THEN ASKED 11: IT WERE ,
POSSIBLE FOR, THIS BOARD TO REVERSE IT'S DECISION. MR'. SCOTT ANSWERED
THAT THIS WAS NOT'BEFORE Till: BOARD AT THIS TIME, BUT IT WOULD BE POSSI-
BLE RYDISAPPROVING THE PLANS.
DISCUSSION FROM THE FLOOR THEN AROSE CONCERNING THE ZONING
ORDINANCE AND ITS INTERPRETATION. THE .FILE ON THE APPEAL FOR ADMINIS-
TRATIVE DECISION WAS PRESENTED TO THE CHAIRMAN 11110 READ, THE MINUTES OF
THAT MEETING.
MR. BALOUGII THEN ASKED MR. SCOTT TO RENDER A DECISION ON THE
PROPER INTERPRETATION OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE IN REGARDS TO RPUD AND
RI ZONING; AND WHETHER OR NOT THIS REQUEST WAS A CASE OF SPECIAL
EXCEPTION OR IN FACT REZONING IN WHICH CASE THIS BOARD WAS NOT IN
ORDER AS RE -ZONING IS THE JOB OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
A REQUEST FOR A RECESS AT THIS TIME WAS IGNORED AND MR. MACLAY
MOVED THAT THE: VOTE BE TAKEN ON THE SPECIAL EXCEPTION. MR. SCOTT THEN
SAID THAT THIS MOTION WOULD BF. OUT OF ORDER AT THIS TIME AS IT IS
PROPER TO HOLD Till-, PUBLIC HEARING AND, DISCUSSIONFIRST AND AS OF
THIS TIME FIRST INTERSTATE HAD NOT. BEEN HEARD. THE MOTION WAS WITH-
DRAWN.
MR. SCOTTWAS THEN ASKED TO GIVE ITIS DECISION AND ASKED IF A
10 MINUTE RECESS WOULD BE TIME ENOUGH. MR. SCOTT STATED THAT HE COULD
GIVE A QUICK DECISION OF HIS INTERPRETATION OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE, BUT
AS HE WOULD NOT HAVE TIME TO RESEARCH THE CASE LAW AND WOULD NOT BE ABLE
TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE FLORIDA LAW IN REGARD TO RPUD AND SINCE
THE APPLICANT WANTS CONTINUANCE THEY HAVE SAID IN EFFECT THAT THEY ARE
NOT PREPARED TO RE HEARD .AT THIS TIME, IT WOULD BE IN THE BEST INTEREST
OF EVERYONE TO GRANT A CONTINUANCE.
MR. MEGUTAR MOVED IN FAVOR OF CONTINUANCE BASED ON THE FACT THAT
THE CITY ATTORNEY WOULD NEED MORE TIME TO ANSWER THE QUESTION POSED
BEFORE HIM. MR.' GRAEFE SECONDED THE MOTION.
MR. BALQUGH MOVED THAT AN AMMENDMENT BE MADE PROVIDING THAT.
ANY VOTE TAKEN THEREAFTER WITH RESPECT TO SINGLE FAMILY VS MULTIFAMILY
USE IN A R1 ZONING' DISTRICT: THAT FIRST THAT DISTRICT BE REZONED BY
COUNCIL. MR. SCOTT STATED THAT THIS AMENNDMENT WAS OUT OF ORDER IN RE-
GARDS TO THE STIPULATION AND THAT THE AMMENDMENT WAS IN FACT RENDERING
A LEGAL DECISION. MIR. BALOUGH WITHDREW THAI' PORTION OF THE AMMENDMENT
:1.`.11 C0,1NGI111 lilt: AMMENDNIEN"I" 'tit HAD TINT HIE PFTITIpSfiR W0111.11 Illi 121:-
i�!Il Rlih TO RIA 15L: ill PIi I.SCN'1'ATION, MR. MAGMAR SECONDED THE MO'IION. .
"tilt: kt'11. ON fill: AMMLNDSIENT WAS AS Ftll,l,n{;S: FOR - MR.
MR. LAI011611, Mit. MKIIIAR, MR. GR:\CPC. AGAIRSI - MR. MACLAY.
AN \•111\U}!1:ST WAS MADE fly MR. GRAIF IIIAI" a 30 DAY CONI INO-
1\CE Ili: GRANI'L.O, ,\.O SECONDED BY MR. MCGUTAR. :111'Iik SOME III SC11SSIOS
MR '.IA(:).A)' M0% H) IIIAI' 'Mill ZIENp?IFNIBE CHANGED '[O READ '1110 CON-,
1't KIIANCI, Ii Ot1I.i1 lit: GIUNILLI FOR FOUR KF.At:S, l'lI1S wti\5 .S"FCONDED BY MR.
MIAMIAll. 1111'. AMML OSIENT A, CHANGED WAS PASSED B1' 11NANIMUl15' VOM. '
1111: M\VM 1N ON 'till: FLOOR 'r;.I'lll 11II1 ,\}I%II'.CR?IL`N'I'S WAS. THEN \'ORD
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TIIIi ItOA1tP 611; ApJUST?IIPAN'l 1%11.1. MiGOSV1Al-, ON `IONDAY APRIL
1011 .'•iii R'IING IIAS AOJOIIIt.':Illl At 9;05 P.M.
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March 7y 1973
71r. iio Nicholas, Lbai—
lfoary of VAuvtnent and Appeals
City of Cap,- Canaveral
Cape Canaveral, Florida
Dear rr. Wichoias:
A p,-blic hearing has been scheduled for Morday, Match 5, 1973
at 7;30' P. M. upon the application of First Interstate Develofnr_nt
Corponition "First Interstate") fur ..pennission to construct a
plarne,! unit develcireet onproperty, in the city of Cape Canaveral.
Wo have received certain suggestions from members of the
publicteganiing prov-sicr. in the planned unit development's for a
not-th-south access ioaJ and sidewaUs adjacent to such road, to
provide access frHarbor tieights:.quhdivision to the south through
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the planned unit development. %%A: ha:e also received inquiries as
to the
plans for a right -of -tiny cr Pidgewood Avenue and the
continuation ofsaid road from its present location northward.
We have also received inquiries as to the possibility of changing
.the location of, certain improvements in the develoPwent.
Cueto the above and foregoingreasons, we feel that we need
to investigate'with the proper city officials and members of the
public these phases of the development and request that the Board
of Adjustment and Appeals continue the he ing now set for hbrday,
March 5; 1973 fora period of. at least' thirty days. - First Interstate
Development Corporation would ie willing to pay for any additional
costs the City may incus associated with such a continuance.
Very truly Y—s,
Richard E. Biery
President
PF.B.,p.+
AND CHANGED THE AMMF.NDMENT TO -READ THAT THE PETITIONER WOULD DE RE
QIIIRmi TO REVISE HIS PREs ENTATION. MR.MEGUTAR' SECONDED TIIE MOTION.
IlHE VOTE ON THE FLMIiNDMBNT WAS AS FOLLOWS: ]:,-'It MR. NICHOLAS,'
MR.. BALOUGH, MR. MEGUTAR, MR. GRAEFE. AGAINST ` MR.'MACLAY..'
AN AMMENUMENT WAS ?NDE Bl'DIR. GRAEFE THAT A-30 DAY CONTINUANCE
BE GRANTED, AND SECONDED BY MR-- MEGUTAR. AF ER DISCUSSION TIDE-AMMEND-
HENT WAS CIIANGF:D. TO READ TIIA"F.TIIL• COjy'T-INUANCf: BE GRANxEU�Fr-A-PEl2I0D
01' FOUR WEEKS;. THIS AMNE3DAIENT WAS' PASSED BY UNANIMOUS VOTE.
THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR WITH THE AMMENDMENTS WAS THEN VOTED ON.
THE VOTE WAS AS FOLLOWS: FOR-- MR. GR:\EFE,.MR. .MEGUTAR, MR'. NICHOLAS,.
NIL MACLAY. AGAINST MR. BALOUGII. THE MOTION PASSED.
TUE BOARD OP ADJUSTMENT WILL RECONVENE ON' MONDAY'. APRIL 2; 1973
AT 7:30 P.M.
THE MEETING WAS ADJOURNED AT 9:05 P.M.