Evening Session — March 12, 2026 FINAL

Alan Clendenin

5:04:42PM The City Council on a rainy day. All attendees in listen-only mode.

5:04:48PM Clerk, can we call the roll, please?

Charlie Miranda

5:04:51PM Here.

Guido Maniscalco

5:04:51PM Here.

Lynn Hurtak

5:04:54PM Here.

Naya Young

5:04:57PM Here. Carlson?

Bill Carlson

5:04:59PM Here.

Alan Clendenin

5:05:00PM Here.

The Clerk

5:05:01PM We have a physical quorum.

Alan Clendenin

5:05:03PM Thank you, as some of you can see -- we can see, but you cant yet. Councilwoman Hurtak is under the weather. Out of respect for US to not get US sick, she decided to stay home and participate virtually. Thank you for joining US, Councilwoman Hurtak. Councilman Viera will be here. Hes just not here yet. Hes stuck in traffic coming from Georgia, where he lives. Mr. Shelby.

Martin Shelby

5:05:26PM Martin Shelby, City Council attorney, good evening. Can we have a motion, per your rules, to permit Councilwoman Hurtak to participate?

Alan Clendenin

5:05:35PM I have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco, a second from Councilman Carlson to allow virtual participation in this meeting by Councilwoman Hurtak. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Welcome, Councilwoman Hurtak. You are now official.

Lynn Hurtak

5:05:48PM Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

5:05:49PM Im going to first recognize, you see we have some special guests in the audience. I would like to recognize Councilman Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

5:05:56PM Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. IT is my pleasure this evening to be here with a group that has given a lot to our country, not yesterday, not today, not tomorrow, but forever. This fine group also had Mr. Frank Smith, I believe district 5. Post 5. Im district because of council. IT is post 5. I apologize to all of you. Proudly honors four participants in the oratorical contest, the west coast. To tell you a little bit about the contest, I would like to turn IT over to District 16, includes District 16, which includes pinellas and pasco county oratorical chairman mr. David Clinger. David. Appreciate IT. Good evening, everybody. Im Dave Clinger. I want to give you a little bit of background about the oratorical. Since 1938, the American Legion national oratorical contest has helped youth deepen their understanding of the constitution, develop the leadership, and earn scholarships through public speaking. IT is a five-level contest where students without notes deliver two speeches on the US. Constitution. One of the contests you are recognizing tonight will be in the fourth level department of Florida contest this weekend, which is held in orlando. And if she wins, IT is a $2500 scholarship. If she wins that, she moves on to the national contest, which the finals will be held at hillsdale college in Michigan, May 15 through the 17. She has an opportunity to win a $25,000 scholarship. So rather than go into describing what the contest is about, tonight Our Designated Central Area Winner Person will deliver a three- to five-minute speech on a section of the US. Constitution. Again, thank you for the opportunity to support our students here.

5:08:37PM Before we honor our students, I would like to represent our veteran legionnaires who helped put this contest together this year. David again. Obviously, im Dave Clinger. I served Combat U.s. Army. I am a retired nurse. I am a member of Post 275 in dunedin. I am a past national judge for the oratorical, as well as the department judge here in Florida. Im currently in internal affairs for the American Legion for the Department Of Florida. Thank you.

5:09:20PM Our good friend, who is the commander for the whole area is Rick O. My name is Rick Orzechowski. Everybody calls me Rick O. For that reason. I served in the U.s. Air Force from 1969 to 1973. Im a member of Post 8 in winter haven and central area commander for the American Legion. Im a retired law enforcement officer also. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

5:09:49PM Thank you, Commander.

Charlie Miranda

5:09:53PM Without education, these students and all of america are to be second to no one, from the bottom up. My next group I would like to cite is the educators who are filling such an important role of our -- serve in the community. My name is Bradford Lee. Served in the U.s. Army from 1983 to 2004. I am now retired. I am a member of Post 79. I serve as the commander of Post 79. I was also a judge for the oratorical contest. Thank you very much. This contest brings back the confidence I have in todays youth. When you sit and listen to them without help, its nice to see. So thank you very much.

Alan Clendenin

5:10:53PM Thank you. My name is Dennis Lafernia. I served aboard the Uss Boston from 1966 to 1970. IT is a heavy guided missile cruiser. We served in Vietnam for three tours. Im a retired fire fighter from the city of malden, Mass. And currently, I am the post adjutant at post 79 in new port richey. Again, I have to reiterate what the commander said about the Youth Of America and where they are heading today. We see an awful lot of youth that are not interested in whats going on in america, but we have people behind US that are showing you today what the Youth Of America is really about. Thank you very much.

5:11:40PM Thank you. Im Frank Smith. I served in the United States Army And Army Reserve from 1974 to 2005. Im employed as a systems analyst for Compass Point Federal, which is a defense contractor at MacDill Air Force Base. Im a member of Post 5. For the past 17 years, ive served as the oratorical chairman for our post. I want to thank the council for honoring US for the 17th year in a row. And also our sponsor, the people sponsoring, Law Firm Of Winters And Yonker. Thank you.

5:12:19PM Thank you very much.

Charlie Miranda

5:12:24PM Thank you, Educators. Now for the main event. Would miles please come up to the podium and introduce yourself to the council? My name is Chief Warrant Officer Martin. I currently serve at Gulf High School as Senior Naval Science Instructor. Ive been there a little less than a year coming off of active duty. Currently, I served first service was 2004 and came off active duty in 2025. Thank you for your time. And thank you for honoring these students today.

5:13:08PM Im shuffling through the papers because IT is the first time ive seen them. Oh, more teachers. Good evening. My name is Ryan Travers. Im an administrator at Bayshore Christian School. I want to thank you for your time and opportunity to be here.

Alan Clendenin

5:13:36PM Thank you. Next teacher. Jeanie Mcnamara. Proud principal of the Academy Of Holy Names. Im thrilled to be here to honor our candidate, Brianna.

5:13:51PM How about the traffic in front of Holy Names? Can you guys do something about IT? Eric Price. Ive been teaching in Tampa about ten years. Currently I teach stem., Computer science math and science classes at the Academy Of Holy Names. I wanted to take some time to thank you. And thank you for honoring these exceptional students tonight.

5:14:12PM Thank you. Again, my name is Darren Spencer. Im wearing multiple hats. Im a member of Post 5, Air Force retired, and actually a jrotc teacher at Jefferson High School, Home Of The Dragons. Thank you very much.

5:14:29PM Not even a go dragons from Charlie Miranda when you mentioned the dragons.

Charlie Miranda

5:14:36PM Im used to winging a lot of things. This is not winging. These are people that really deserve the attention that they should get, not only here in the City Of Tampa but the whole country. Brianna, on behalf of Tampa City Council, we would like to congratulate you and bring you your plaque, but I have the wrong page. Like I said, this is unrehearsed. Thank you, educators. Now for the main event, would Miles please come to the podium and introduce yourself to the council. Wasnt that done? My name is Miles Savinski, im currently a senior at gulf high school in new port richey, Florida. Ive recently been nominated as outstanding senior and valedictorian of the school. I want to say, before I leave, thank you to all of our educators, everyone here who has helped me Along The Way. Part of that is my American Legion post 79 without the various resources they helped me achieve not only in the oratorical contest but also boys state and almost boys nation. Its helped me a lot and developed me into who I am today, who I become and hope to be in the future at the Air Force Academy.

Alan Clendenin

5:15:57PM Definitely not an underachiever. [ applause good evening.

Charlie Miranda

5:16:20PM The next participant -- Fritz Karr, on behalf of Tampa City Council, we would like to congratulate you and present you with this plaque winning the bronze medal of post 5 contest. This marks the second time we have had the honor with you and participation, wish you well and you are to enter USF. Thats wonderful. Importantly God because they have given me many opportunities. And while I May not be perfect, I can always have room to grow. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

5:17:06PM Go bulls. Congratulations. [ applause is.

Charlie Miranda

5:17:22PM On behalf of Tampa City Council, Marco Blanco Suarez. Easy name for me to pronounce. On behalf of Tampa City Council, wherever you are at, we would like to congratulate you and present you with this plaque -- properly bug him for being in traffic and getting stuck.

5:17:49PM Well present this in a second to all of you. Brianna, on behalf of Tampa City Council, we would like to congratulate you and your -- on this plaque for winning the gold medal post 5 contest and being designated winner of 15th district in central area contest. We wish you the best, department championship this weekend in orlando. When you attend Florida girls state this summer, you are a fantastic person. Academy Of Holy Names as junior. Good evening. My name is Brianna. I am a junior at the Academy Of The Holy Names in Tampa on Bayshore. And I am very honored and very grateful to be here to be honored. I want to really thank you and express my deepest gratitudes for having me here today. Thank you to Ms. Mcnamara and stem. Teacher Mr. Price to be here to celebrate my accomplishments with me and also my mom and dad for always supporting me. I will try my best to do well in the state competition this weekend. I will try my best to become a win. [ applause

5:19:17PM She is going to give a three- to five-minute speech. Believe me, you will not be disappointed. Ask the council members, if you come down and take a picture with the four recipients. Thank you. Is ten-minuted prepare oration and another one is randomly assigned topic from four given previously and the one I chose to give you all today is from article 6, clause 3 of the US. Constitution. I hope that you enjoy the speech. Article 6, clause 3 of the US. Constitution states: all executive and judicial officers shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this constitution, but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the united states. In one single sentence, the constitution accomplishes something rare. IT binds power tightly while freeing belief entirely. All public officials must swear loyalty not to a person, not to a party, not to an ideology but to the constitution itself, to the constitution of this country, the United States of America. This oath is not symbolic. IT is a declaration authority flows from law, not personal conviction. That power is conditional, but service is accountable. But just as firmly the constitution rejects religious tests. Faith is not a prerequisite for service. Belief is not a barrier to service. The Government cannot demand conformity of conscience as a price for participation. And this was a radical idea in its time. Most governments had authority to religious identity, but our constitutions framers chose a different path. Not because they rejected faith, but because they had seen conflicts and persecution arise from state-sponsored religions, because the foundational establishment of our Government is not based on secular belief. IT is based on the consent of the governed, on the promise to uphold our nations fundamental values and principles. This protection was reinforced in the case of Torcaso versus Watkins when The Supreme Court struck down a requirement that public officials declare belief in God. The Court made clear the Government cannot condition public service on religious faith. Affirming that loyalty to the constitution not adherence to a creed, is the only legitimate qualification for office. And in 2026, this protection is indispensable. Our society is more socially, culturally, and religiously diverse, more ideologically divided than ever before. This clause ensures that public trust rests on conduct. Not creed. Article 6, clause 3 reminds US that a free nation, that a free society does not demand sameness. IT demands responsibility. Our duties and obligations as citizens are to defend freedom of belief, to reject religious discrimination, to protect the rights of those who May think differently from US, and to ensure that public office remains open to all, regardless of identity, belief, or faith. The constitution binds leaders to duty while liberating citizens to believe freely. And in doing so, IT proves that unity does not require uniformity. IT requires action. And that action is the responsibility of citizens and Government leaders alike to uphold the constitution together. Different in belief, but united in duty, because the freedom to differ is a fundamental democratic right that allows our society to flourish. And that is a right that can never be taken away from US. Thank you. [ applause

Alan Clendenin

5:23:57PM For those of you who want to be in the picture, if you want to come up here, this is a better shot.

Charlie Miranda

5:24:08PM Lets go up front. [ applause

Alan Clendenin

5:26:20PM Okay. Now I think there is a collective sigh of relief, joy, excitement in the next item that we move to. Item number 2. Good evening. Rebecca Johns, Legal Department. We are pleased to present the collective bargaining agreement with Local Union 754, the Iaff. The city and the fire union worked very hard to come to an agreement that was beneficial for both parties. The firefighter union has ratified and approved this contract. I wont go into details of the agreement. We provided you with an executive summary that shows the changes that were made in this contract as compared to the 2022 through 2025 cba. I do have one correction in the executive summary that I want to put on the record. In section 3 for the union hours, IT should say 3520 union hours instead of 3250 union hours. The union leave hours went up. We ask that you approve this agreement tonight so that the city can get everything into the system so that the new wages can go into effect April 1st. Rebecca Carr, Dennis Rogero, and myself are here if you have any questions. I do want to note that Kelly Austin wanted to be here to present this tonight but shes been under the weather this week, so she wasnt able to attend. If you have any questions, we are here.

5:28:33PM Does Council have any questions? Very good. I know you worked really hard at this. Congratulations. Councilman Viera.

Luis Viera

5:28:40PM Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Many of US had been to the negotiations. There were a lot of contested issues. I wanted to thank, everybody was on top of their game, on the top of their game, staff, management, labor. IT was a real pleasure to see Nick Stocco in action there. He and his board always did a great job. I was asked to read a message from Local 754 briefly, states in relevant part, membership participation vote was historic for the organization. 550 firefighters cast ballots representing approximately 70 percent of the bargaining unit. One of the highest participation levels we have seen of those votes, 499 yes, 59 no. 90% approval by the members voted. All voting conducted in person by secret ballot throughout the week at the union hall. In closing, on behalf of the members of iaff Local 754 we respectfully ask for your support of file 26-22306 this evening. This agreement represents a good-faith effort between the city and Tampa firefighters to provide stability, competitive compensation and continue high-level service to the residents of Tampa. Just for the record.

Alan Clendenin

5:29:48PM Is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak to item number 2? Councilman Viera, would you like to read file f26-22306?

Luis Viera

5:29:57PM Yes, sir, my pleasure. I move file f26-22306, a resolution approving, ratifying, and confirming the collective bargaining agreement between the City Of Tampa and local union 754 International Association Of Firefighters, Afl-Cio, effective through September 30, 2028, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

5:30:19PM We have a motion from Councilman Viera. A second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? We have to do roll call.

Lynn Hurtak

5:30:28PM Yes.

Naya Young

5:30:31PM Yes.

Luis Viera

5:30:32PM Yes.

Bill Carlson

5:30:34PM Yes.

Charlie Miranda

5:30:34PM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

5:30:36PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

5:30:37PM Yes.

The Clerk

5:30:38PM Motion carried unanimously.

Luis Viera

5:30:43PM Just briefly, Local 754 was going to be here. Return trip to dc. Flight got delayed. Just for the record.

Alan Clendenin

5:30:55PM Thank you and thank Staff as well. Staff went in really hard for this. Thank you guys for all the work you did. Thank you. Thank you very much. Can I get a motion to open up the 5:01 public hearings? Motion from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. If you are here in the audience tonight and you are planning on testifying at any of the public hearings, can you please stand, raise your right hand and be sworn in by our clerk? [Oath administered]

5:31:27PM Thank you so much. We are on item number 3, and we are going to buzz through tonight. For the record, Christopher Demanche with Development Coordination. Agenda item 3 is rez 25-112. This is a request to rezone 2907 West Euclid Avenue from RS 60 to RS 50. Ill turn IT over now to the Planning Commission.

5:31:48PM Good evening. Quinn Steele, Planning Commission staff. Ill try to keep IT short and sweet. We did provide a revised staff report just to clarify that this site is within the coastal high hazard area. IT is within the South Tampa planning district, the Bayshore beautiful neighborhood, and the coastal high hazard area in evacuation zone a. The subject site is outlined in purple, roughly 400 feet West Of Bayshore Boulevard. This portion of West Euclid Avenue is primarily developed with single-family homes. This map shows the adopted future land use as residential 10 which surrounds the site on all sides and supports low density residential development. Residential 83 and residential 20 are located one block North Near Bayshore Boulevard And Waverly Avenue. The request is rezone from RS 60 to RS 50. Under the adopted r-10 designation, the site May be considered for up two dwelling units. Planning Commission staff reviewed the request and found IT compatible with the surrounding single-family development pattern. Overall, the request is consistent with the residential 10 designation in the comprehensive plan. That concludes our presentation. Im available for questions.

5:32:48PM Council have any questions? Hearing none.

Christopher Demanche

5:33:00PM For the record again, Christopher Demanche, Development Coordination. The subject site is located on the north side of West Euclid Avenue. IT is at the intersection of west euclid and South Waverly Court. The subject property is developed with a single-family detached dwelling. Surrounding the subject parcel are single-family detached dwellings to the north, south, east, and west. IT is all RS 60 zoning with the exception of two lots that are located on the south side of West Euclid Avenue, that are zoned RS 50. The subject parcel, the survey shows IT at the corner of South Waverly Court and West Euclid Avenue. The site has approximately 110 Feet Of Street frontage on South Waverly Court and 100 feet along West Euclid Avenue. I provided an analysis in my staff report on pages 3 and 4, which I will now review with you. The subject site is part of the bella vista subdivision, lots 34 and 35, which was originally platted in 1916. The area of analysis included 224 parcels. 119 parcels or 53% have been developed with a width of 60 feet or greater. And 105 parcels or 47% have been developed with a width of 59.99 Feet or less. The subject block face on the north side of West Euclid Avenue that runs from South Waverly Court To Bayshore Boulevard has widths ranging from 60 feet to over a hundred. Excluding the subject site, three or 100% of the parcels on the subject block have a width of 60 feet or greater with one measuring 60 feet to 64.99 Feet in width, one measuring 75 feet to 79.99 Feet in width. And one measuring 80 feet to 99.99 Feet in width. Also, the block face running from South Macdill Avenue to South Waverly Court contains seven lots, widths ranging from 75 feet to over a hundred feet. All seven or 100% of the parcels have a width of 60 feet or greater, with one measuring 75 feet to 79.99 Feet in width, three measuring 80 feet to 99.99 Feet in width. And three measuring over 100 feet in width. This shows the subject property. Next we have the subject property. This is north of the subject property on south waverly. This is south on the south side of west euclid. The next photo is the lot for this home. This is the actual, the two lots currently zoned RS 50. Immediately east of the subject site. West of the subject site. This would be across south waverly. And because this is a euclidean rezoning, there is no site plan or elevations to show you. Staff has identified in the overall study area that 53% of the parcels have been developed with a width of 60 feet or greater and 47% have a width of 59.99 Feet or less in the study area. While there are a variety of lot sizes within the vicinity of the subject site, Development Review And Compliance Staff finds the proposed request to be inconsistent with the existing development pattern in the overall study area. And im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

5:36:40PM Council have any questions? Hearing none, applicant? Im Aileen Rosario. Mr. Jeffrey Jones, the homeowner. Were trying to do Euclidean to change from RS 60 to RS 50. Originally, this lot was platted in 1916 at 50 feet in width. Somewhere down the line, two lots became one, but the zoning, somehow the City zoned IT as an RS 60. But the majority of the lots within that euclid, euclid, bay villa, and bay view, bay villa, Bay Court, the majority of the lots are all zoned RS 60, thats true. But lot width is only 50 feet wide. So you are technically, you are not in compliance with your lot size. So all we want to do is to be able to rezone the property, eventually Mr. Jones will choose what he wants to do with his property, whether he chooses to split IT, sell. I think hes trying to sell the property now as-is. But thats all were trying to do is just make IT a legal conforming RS 50 as to what the plat was originally. Mr. Jones has a few things he would like to say.

5:38:09PM Mr. Jones, start with your name, please. Mr. Chairman and fellow council members. Thank you. My name is Jeffrey Jones. I reside at 2907 West Euclid Avenue in Tampa. Im here to request that my property be rezoned from r 60 to r 50. This would allow Me to split the lot, but IT wouldnt require IT. Its a little bit more than a quarter of an acre, and I believe its highest and best use is to have one or two larger new homes. This will contribute more in tax revenues with no additional infrastructure and no additional costs to the City or the community. Larger homes will sell for more than my existing house could ever sell for, which increases property values. There are only benefits I believe, for the City, for the neighborhood, and for taxpayers. Higher density is a good thing. The City needs more housing. This could create the opportunity for one more. Greater density will not cause harm to any property nearby. No harms have been demonstrated by the very few letter writers opposed to my application who mention only some broad, unsupported allegations. But I would like to address each one of those directly. One was pedestrian safety. Euclid has sidewalks and parkways on both sides Of The Street. There will be no erosion of pedestrian safety. Traffic, Euclid is a Collector Street. Its intended to gather traffic from neighborhood streets and funnel IT into -- to and from main thoroughfares. IT will not exacerbate traffic. Neighborhood character. This property has been my residence for 32 years. And ive loved living there. During that time, half of the houses on the first two-block stretch of Euclid have been replaced, demolished and replaced. Larger, more expensive, two- and three-story homes have replaced. My house is a modest, single-story ranch built in 1961. IT is the only original home left and the smallest On The Street. The larger homes on the property will be similar to the newer homes that already exist On The Street that have been built since ive lived there. This will put the property more in character with the existing neighborhood. IT will not suffer. And precedent I think is the big one. There are already multiple properties nearby that were rezoned r 50, including the one in the photo directly Across The Street from Me. On the other side of Euclid. There are also multiple homes on 55-foot lots on streets parallel to Euclid, whether they are Zoned That Way or not, that is the size of the lot. And they are all on the same block as mine. The 2900 block. IT is the first block off Bayshore. These homes exist on west bay villa, west bay vista, west bay view and the streets immediately south of Euclid and there is at least one on el prado, a couple of streets north and others in that area. Without rezoning, the alternatives are less desirable for all parties. One alternative would be that I have to sell IT as IT is at a much lower price than any other house on the block. Ive had multiple lowball offers. 75% of asking price. Some people wanted to buy IT to live in IT, like I do. Some intended to rent IT, and some rent IT out -- some intended to do a gut renovation, but none of these alternatives would be as beneficial to all concerned properties, namely the City, the neighbors, and Me. If im forced to accept a lowball offer, IT would harm property nearby because my property would be a comparable sale when other properties come on the market and that would lower the value of those properties. In summary, I just want my property rezoned from r 60 to r 50 because I believe IT will be the highest and best use. I believe IT will increase revenue for the City. I believe IT will increase home values. I believe IT will fit well into the neighborhood. I believe IT will create no cost or problems to the City or the neighbors, and there are multiple precedents for the rezoning. ID just like the City to give Me the same opportunity. And thank you so much.

5:42:51PM Thank you very much. Anything else? Thank you.

5:42:59PM Thank you so much. Anybody in the public that wishes to speak to item number 3? Anybody else in the public, stand up along the line. Sir, you can come up to the podium. Start with your name. Youll have three minutes. My name is Bill Wadsworth. I life at 3611 Bayshore Boulevard, four houses down from this house. Appreciate your comments. All due respect, you are the applicant. I would try to do the same thing. Euclid Avenue is not the Typical Side Street off Of Bayshore Boulevard. The City Staff did the report, I looked at that, they went five streets north and five streets south. And there are a number of houses on 50-foot lots on those streets. On Euclid Avenue between Bayshore and macdill, theres 22 parcels, zero houses are on a 50-foot lot. There are a -- theres number of 60-foot and currently zoned as RS 60. I dont have any idea how the two lots Across The Street got zoned RS 50. I wasnt living there at the time. But I was the owner of the property, and I dont remember getting a notice. And I can tell you, the City Staff quote said they find the request inconsistent with City of Tampa Code of Ordinances. And there are a couple of other things. Euclid, its more than just your typical traffic. Fire and emergency vehicles are On That Street all the time. Buses, large trucks, construction trucks. Yes, there are sidewalks on each side and that is a good thing because there are a lot of pedestrians. Mothers with strollers, Elderly People, people walking their dogs. I also noticed that in the agenda package for today, theres only two opposition letters. I know for a fact that at the November meeting when this came up, there were probably SIX or seven opposition letters or e-mails in that file for the agenda at that time. I dont know why they dont carry forward. Hopefully you see them and hopefully the City Staff is aware of those. But I printed them. I guarantee you they were there. I just think there are safety concerns. There is the coastal hazard concerns. Theres all the extra things -- is that my three minutes?

5:45:45PM You have 30 seconds more. Houses on 50-foot lots to start that right now. And one other thing, this particular lot, its 110 feet deep versus everything on that side is 145. I have no idea where the 35 feet went at some point in the past. But to take an even smaller lot and cut IT in half, not a good idea.

5:46:15PM Thank you very much for your input. Anybody else in the public wishing to speak to this item? Mr. Shelby, I know we received the e-mails. Only two in the file? I know we received e-mails on this.

Martin Shelby

5:46:26PM They should have been uploaded. For the purposes of the record, to do you want to make a motion to receive and file those into the record that have been available?

Alan Clendenin

5:46:36PM We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda to receive and file the e-mails that have been received on this issue into this file. All in favor, aye. Opposed? I see Councilwoman Hurtak. Councilwoman Hurtak, I didnt hear your voice. Are you muted?

Lynn Hurtak

5:46:52PM Aye.

Alan Clendenin

5:46:54PM Very good. Thank you so much. Nobody else in the public, right? Public comment is closed.

Martin Shelby

5:47:06PM Martin Shelby, City Council attorney, if there are any questions, now would be the time and then rebuttal.

Alan Clendenin

5:47:11PM Any further questions from council? No. Does the Applicant wish to have rebuttal? Hearing none, we have a motion to close from Councilman Maniscalco. A second from Councilman Viera. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Very good. Ill start because this is kind of something that was -- when I ran for office. About the South Tampa being full, and im empathetic with the homeowner, but as we saw, staff highlighted over 53% of the lots in this area are zoned RS 60. Its definitely the character of the neighborhood, specifically north of euclid, vast majority. And if we start approving this, IT is a slippery slope and putting density in an area that we dont want additional density. In other words, one house is there now. We split this, its now two. If that trend would continue, its in an area, were not trying to encourage density in this particular area of our city, in this part of South Tampa. Were trying to push density into the other neighborhoods. So this would absolutely go against what this City Council has stood for. One of the things I know the Applicant talked about was the de minimis, because that is a very pedestrian friendly environment with the sidewalks, you end up having an additional curb cut, which is something we also attempt to try to minimize on these areas with sidewalks and bicycle lanes, as we minimize those curb cuts. Im not going to support this euclidean zoning request. Anybody else? Councilman Maniscalco.

Guido Maniscalco

5:48:50PM If theres nobody else, I would like to make a motion.

Alan Clendenin

5:48:53PM Councilman Maniscalco.

Guido Maniscalco

5:48:57PM I agree with what youve said, therefore I would like to make a motion to deny item 3, rez 25-112 based on the inconsistency finding by the City and in regard to specifically those percentages that were shown in the staff report, also in comparison to the surrounding area and what You mentioned about coastal high hazard, the density, the increasing of the density and specifically what we hear over and over again, that these areas of the City that are most vulnerable, and this is one of them, increasing that density is not a wise decision. Thats my motion.

Alan Clendenin

5:49:36PM Thank you. We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. A second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Sorry, roll call vote.

Naya Young

5:49:47PM Yes.

Luis Viera

5:49:48PM Yes.

Bill Carlson

5:49:50PM Yes.

Charlie Miranda

5:49:50PM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

5:49:51PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

5:49:52PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

5:49:53PM Yes.

The Clerk

5:49:55PM Motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

5:49:57PM Thank you. Just a reminder, we cant do electronic tonight because we have a virtual participation with Councilwoman Hurtak. All the roll call votes will have to be verbal.

Stephanie Pope

5:50:09PM Good evening. Stephanie Pope, Development Coordination. Agenda item 4 is rez 25-126, request to rezone 4102 north 22nd street from CG to PD residential, single-family attached. Ill turn IT over to the Planning Commission staff.

Quinn Steele

5:50:28PM Quinn Steele, Planning Commission staff. The site is within the central Tampa planning district. The historic belmont heights neighborhood and the East Tampa urban village. IT is also within evacuation zone e. The subject site is outlined in purple. The surrounding area contains a mix of residential, commercial, and institutional uses with single-family homes to the west and commercial uses to the north and south along north 22nd street. South of MLK is belmont heights ballpark and memorial park cemetery. Ferrell Preparatory Academy is to the northeast and Lockhart Elementary And Young Middle School are to the southwest. This map shows the adopted future land use as community mixed use 35, which supports medium density residential, commercial, and mixed use development. CMU 35 is located along north 22nd street with community commercial 35 along MLK. The blue represents publicsemi-public for the Ferrell Preparatory Academy and the green represents the rec open space for the cemetery and the park. The request is to rezone from CG to PD to allow four single-family attached units on a vacant site. This is consistent with the density anticipated under the CMU 35 designation. Planning Commission staff reviewed the request and found IT compatible with the surrounding area. The design orients front doors towards East Ida Street and north 22nd street with a sidewalk connection to the right-of-way. Overall, the proposal provides infill development within the East Tampa urban village and is consistent with the comprehensive plan. That concludes my presentation. Im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

5:51:50PM Council have any questions? Hearing none, Ms. Pope.

Stephanie Pope

5:51:54PM Stephanie Pope, Development Coordinating. Ill start with an aerial view of the subject site and surrounding area. The subject site is surrounded in red. On the west side of 22nd street and this is ida right here, east martin Luther King Boulevard. To the north, east, and south, the parcel is surrounded by commercial zoning with CI zoning and commercial uses. This is the Preparatory Academy which Planning Commission staff mentioned. And then to the west is RS 50 zoning with residential single-family uses. Here is the site plan provided by the applicant. Here is 22nd street. Here is east ida. There are four attached single-family attached units. Units one, two, three have front doors facing east ida. Unit four has a front door facing east -- or north 22nd street. Each unit has a two-car garage with entry from East Ida Street, and then there is one guest parking space. Each unit is proposed at 35 feet in height. Next we have the elevations. Here you can see the south elevation and the east elevation. You have the north elevation and the west elevation. There are two waivers with this request. Waiver one is for, a request to allow front door orientation for units one, two, and three to face East Ida Street. Waiver number two is a request to reduce the corner setback of the garage opening from the minimum setback of 15 feet to seven feet. Next ill show some photos of the site. And the surrounding area. This is the subject site on ida looking north. This is the subject site from 22nd. This is the view looking East On Ida Street. This is east of the site across north 22nd street. This is east of the site further down on 22nd where that Preparatory Academy is. This is West Of The Street -- of the site on east ida. North on North Bay Street. The south side of ida, and then this is just south on 22nd. Development Coordination and compliance staff reviewed the application and find the request to be consistent with the land development code. Should City Council approve the application and waivers requested, the modification to the site plan as shown on the submitted revision sheet must be completed between first and second readings. Im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

5:55:00PM Any questions? Hearing none, applicant. Good evening. My name is Mario Espaillat. I am the applicant. I dont want to ruin a good presentation. All I need to say is were just trying to make IT better, make IT beautiful, make that -- that area is not developed, that whole block on 22nd. By The Way, the owner owns the two other lots on the same block, and he would like to do the same depending on the outcome of this. That Way that block is going to be all residential and better looking for the neighborhood. Thank you very much for your time.

5:55:45PM Council have any questions? The only thing I would say, squeeze a little bit wider garage to keep people from parking On The Street, that would be great. Just a little bit wider.

5:55:56PM Just a little wider. Sometimes when you get the narrow garages, People choose not to use the garage.

5:56:04PM Yeah, trying to get IT a little wider. Not that IT will stop your project.

5:56:12PM Next time, exactly. Anybody in the public wishing to speak to the item? Miranda, second from Maniscalco. In favor, aye. Opposed?

Luis Viera

5:56:29PM Move ordinance being presented for first reading consideration. An ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 4102 north 22nd street in the City of Tampa, Florida and more particularly described in section 1 from zoning district classification CG, to PD, planned development, residential, single-family, attached, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

5:56:51PM We have a motion and We have a second. Are you up here for the next one? Can We get a roll call vote, please?

Luis Viera

5:57:03PM Yes. Miranda?

Charlie Miranda

5:57:06PM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

5:57:08PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

5:57:10PM Yes.

Naya Young

5:57:11PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

5:57:12PM Yes.

The Clerk

5:57:13PM Motion carried with Carlson absent at vote. Second reading and adoption will be held on April 2nd, 2026 -- did I read the last second reading?

Alan Clendenin

5:57:27PM That was a denial.

The Clerk

5:57:28PM IT was a denial. Sorry. Thank you. For item number 4, second reading and adoption will be held on April 2, 2026 at 10 am. At old city hall, located at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, third floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602.

Alan Clendenin

5:57:44PM Thank you. Item number 5.

Christopher Demanche

5:57:46PM For the record, Christopher Demanche, Development Coordination. Agenda item number 5 is rez 25-129. This is a request to rezone 2707 east 22nd avenue, unit one from RM 16 to planned development for residential, single-family, semi detached uses. Ill turn IT over now to Planning Commission staff.

Quinn Steele

5:58:10PM Quinn Steele, Planning Commission staff. This site is within the central Tampa planning district. North ybor neighborhood and East Tampa urban village. Also within evacuation zone e. The subject site is outlined in purple. This portion of east 22nd avenue is primarily developed with single-family detached homes with some two family uses nearby. Public and semi-public uses are concentrated along north 28th street and two cemeteries are located one block west. This map shows the site designated as residential 20, which surrounds the site on all sides and supports low to medium density residential development. To the west is publicsemi-public in blue and peach is residential 10. Request is rezone from RM 16 to PD to allow two single-family semi-detached dwelling units on a vacant site. The proposal is consistent with the density anticipated under the r-20 designation. Planning Commission staff reviewed the request and found IT compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. Both front doors orient toward a new sidewalk along east 22nd avenue, which will improve pedestrian connectivity where sidewalks are currently lacking. Overall, the proposal supports compatible infill within the East Tampa urban village and is consistent with the comprehensive plan. That concludes my presentation. Im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

5:59:18PM Thank you. Good job. Next. See if you can speak that quick.

Christopher Demanche

5:59:27PM Christopher Demanche, Development Coordination. Well start with an aerial of the subject site. Subject property is outlined in red. IT is located along the south side of east 22nd avenue. The subject block is located east of north 22nd -- or 26th street and west of north 29th street. Property to the north, south, east, and west consist of single-family detached dwellings. The surrounding zoning in all directions is RM 16. We do have a site plan provided by the applicant. The site plan shows a single structure with two single-family semi detached units. Each unit does provide a single vehicle garage, additional parking would be provided in the driveways. The front doors for each unit face east 22nd avenue as well as vehicular access is provided by the same right-of-way. These are the elevations for the subject site. This depicts the single structure. Max height proposed is 33 feet, 4 inches. There are also no waivers requested with this PD rezoning this evening. And the elevations show the subject structure in all directions. Have some photos to show. This is a photo of the subject site. This is looking north across east 22nd. South of the subject site. East of the subject site. West of the subject site. This is looking east on east 22nd avenue. Lastly, looking west down east 22nd avenue. Development Coordination and compliance staff has reviewed this application. We find the request consistent with the land development code. Should IT be the pleasure of City Council to approve the application, modifications to the site plan as shown on the submitted revision sheet must be completed between first and second reading. I am available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

6:01:55PM Any questions? Applicant? Jaime Maier of the law firm hill, ward, Henderson representing the Applicant, 101 East Kennedy Boulevard, suite 3700. I have been sworn. I will be super quick. I dont think there is a whole lot of additional color to provide here. Just that the lot is .01 Acres shy of what they would need to have two units by right under r-20. So we are entering into a bonus provision agreement, or thats what were seeking to get that additional, and the amount were paying is for the full unit. That I think is a benefit to the city. I think -- we think this is an appropriate project. No waivers as you heard. IT complies with everything IT would have to comply with, just needs the PD for the additional kick in density which would be paid for. We respectfully request your approval unless there are any questions.

6:02:44PM Council have any questions? Hearing none. Anybody in the public wishing to speak to this item? Hearing none.

Charlie Miranda

6:02:51PM Move to close.

Alan Clendenin

6:02:54PM Go ahead.

Naya Young

6:02:56PM Is there a reason why went for the three stories? Looking at the surrounding homes in the area. Single-family home that was two stories. If we werent asking for a PD IT could be three stories because were complying with the height. Im not the Contractor, of course, so I dont know exactly what the design desire was, but thats what they landed on. I think largely because the garage takes up a significant amount of the first floor primarily.

6:03:32PM Okay.

Alan Clendenin

6:03:34PM Motion to close from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Cttv, can I get Councilwoman Hurtak back up, please? Very good. There you are. Clerk, can you call -- we have to read IT first. Councilwoman Young, would you like to read this?

Naya Young

6:03:56PM File number rez-25-129, an ordinance being presented for first reading consideration, an ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 2707 east 22nd avenue unit 1 in the City of Tampa, Florida and more particularly described in section 1 from zoning district classification RM 16, residential, multifamily, to PD, planned development, residential, single-family, semi detached, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

6:04:24PM We have a motion from Councilwoman Young. A second from Councilman Miranda. Roll call, please.

Bill Carlson

6:04:29PM Yes.

Charlie Miranda

6:04:30PM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

6:04:30PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

6:04:33PM Yes.

Naya Young

6:04:35PM Yes. Clendenin?

Alan Clendenin

6:04:38PM Yes.

The Clerk

6:04:39PM Motion carried with Viera absent at vote. Second reading and adoption will be held on April 2nd, 2026, at 10 am. At old city hall, located at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, third floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602.

Alan Clendenin

6:04:55PM Thank you so much. On to item number 6.

Stephanie Pope

6:05:00PM Development Coordination. Agenda item 6 is rez 26-02, request to rezone 1008 West Lasalle Street from RS 50 to PD for residential, single-family semi detached. Ill turn IT over to the Planning Commission staff.

Quinn Steele

6:05:16PM Quinn Steele, Planning Commission staff. Ignore that scribbling. I wrote down notes on the wrong map. This site is within the central Tampa planning district, west riverfront neighborhood and West Tampa urban village, also within evacuation zone b. The subject site is outlined in purple. Located south of i-275 and one block west of julian b. Lane riverfront park. This portion of West Lasalle Street primarily developed with single-family homes with two family uses to the south and multifamily to the east. This map shows the site designated as residential 20, to the East Along North Boulevard are the CMU 35, UMU 60 and recreation open space designations. Request is rezone from RS 50 to PD to allow two single-family semi detached dwelling units on vacant site. Proposal consistent with the density anticipated under the r-20 designation. Planning Commission reviewed the staff and found IT compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. Both units orient toward West Lasalle Street with sidewalk connection to the right-of-way. Overall proposal supports compatible infill within the West Tampa urban village and consistent with the comprehensive plan. That concludes my presentation and im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

6:06:23PM Thank you. Any questions? Hearing none, Ms. Pope.

Stephanie Pope

6:06:27PM Development Coordination. Well start with an aerial view of the subject site and surrounding areas. You can see the subject site outlined here in red. Here is west la salle. Here is Delaware, monroe, and this Is North Boulevard and 275. The subject site is located on the south side of West Lasalle Street between north monroe and north Delaware. Surrounding area development pattern is comprised of single-family detached dwellings to the north, west, and east with RS 50 zoning in a single-family detached and two family and multifamily use to the south. I just wanted to point out that that is located right here. This is the subject property, and in the staff report, there is, IT says single-family detached. There is single-family detached, but there is also a multifamily directly south. And then the zoning, as you move East Towards North Boulevard, the zoning transitions to commercial general Along North Boulevard. This is just a map to show you the size of the lots. This is the parcel in the hatched area, and this is la salle. And while the rezoning -- while rezonings have occurred in the immediate area west of Delaware, the subject block contains larger lots at widths of 100 feet and greater. There have been no recent rezonings on the subject block and the proposed lots are inconsistent with the development pattern on this block Between Delaware Avenue And Monroe Street. Next ill show you the site plan provided by the Applicant. Here is west la salle. And then this is the adjacent alley to the rear. The proposal shows the one car garage for each unit and then one parking space in the driveway. The entry is from west la salle. And then the maximum building height is going to be 35 feet. The subject site is in the West Tampa overlay district and adjacent to an alley, which is right here. The overlay standards require vehicular access from the alley when the alley is open and used. The alley located south of the property while open has been determined as unusual -- unusable by Transportation Planning Staff and therefore the Applicant has requested a waiver to the standard to allow front access on la salle. Here are the elevations provided by the Applicant. The future land use is r-20 which allows a maximum of one dwelling unit by right. Applicant is proposing construction of two semi detached units and has entered into a bonus agreement for the additional unit. There is one waiver for this, and this waiver is the request to allow for vehicular access to the lot from the front rather than from the alley. Next ill show some photos of the site and surrounding area. This is the subject site. On la salle. This is east of the site. West of the site. North of the site. Northeast of the site at the corner of monroe and la salle. This is a view looking west on la salle from monroe. And this is that multifamily that is south of the parcel. The Development Review And Compliance Staff has reviewed the petition and finds the request inconsistent with the Applicant City Of Tampa land regulations notwithstanding staffs finding of inconsistency. If City Council approves the application, waiver requested, modification to the site plan as shown on the submitted revision sheet must be completed between first and second reading. Im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

6:10:29PM I have a question. Anybody from Transportation here?

6:10:34PM Jonathan Scott. Lets talk about alleys.

Jonathan Scott

6:10:40PM Jonathan Scott, Transportation.

Alan Clendenin

6:10:42PM This one and the next one. Im kind of confused because IT seems as though the alleys are actually fairly decent shape. Whats going on with this alley?

Jonathan Scott

6:10:51PM Let me check real quick on that one.

Alan Clendenin

6:10:54PM Okay. Thank you. Physically open. They are unpaved and didnt show any sign of regular use, so they didnt meet that definition of open end used. That was the determination that I had made when I looked at this alley.

6:11:51PM Councilwoman Hurtak, did I see your hand wave? Im kind of familiar with the area. Im not going to provide testimony. Maybe ill ask the applicant about the alley when he comes up. Usually breezes by. Good evening, Council Members. My name is James Lascara. I am the applicant and owner of 1008 West Lasalle Street, which we are proposing for single-family semi detached use. Property was previously a house damaged in a fire. Had a standing demolition order from the City for about a year before we bought IT. Want to say first I live right Down The Street, three blocks away On Gray Street. Im advocate for supporting my own neighborhood and seeing IT improve from within. I go for a walk every day in the neighborhood and enjoy living here and especially the people ive been able to meet. Im not at all opposed to using the alleys. The Council has seen our proposal for 1320 and 1318 arch, which we incorporated thoughtful use of the alley for vehicle ingress on those as well as on 1112 Lasalle Street, which had four of the SIX units using alley use for those when the alley was considered opened and used. One of the things I appreciate about our neighborhood is walkability to our larger Tampa community. Shops and restaurants to the south, the new publix to the north, julian b. Lane park to the east. And im excited to say the riverwalk extension coming soon down rome to our west. Entering the fourth year of me living in the neighborhood, I want to share that im committed to responsible growth in our own neighborhood, which is also located within the West Tampa urban village and West Tampa CRA mentioned by Staff. As a neighbor myself, I welcome the opportunity to see more families and restaurants to be able to enjoy the neighborhood I also appreciate. Part of my vision for the project. Community support has also been strong. I noticed before getting up here, e-mails of support from Tampa residents, five of which are neighbors within just blocks of the project. Who know the community well and recognize the benefits of responsible development. Only waiver requested is supported by Staff for the alley in accordance with code guidelines for West Tampa overlay, specifically the language open and used. I do want to dive deep near the development pattern, which was the finding of inconsistency. I appreciate staffs attention -- I appreciate staffs attention to this specific block. In a situation like this, I think its important that we also examining the development factors of the surrounding area. I put forth here a GIS map that shows the development pattern and current use by the parcel. Block is atypical in that IT is made up of less than half a normal size block totaling five platted lots. The normal size block that exists as development pattern, every block west for numerous blocks is 12 platted lots wide. Development pattern for the entire rest of the neighborhood, 12 platted lots instead of five. Inherently means anything that happens on one lot of the subject block will have an outsize influence on the development pattern since simply fewer lots. Speaking of which, hasnt been a change in development pattern on this block since Richard Nixon was president, By The Way, 1973. I think the question we have to ask ourselves, is our City different now than IT was in 1973? If so, should we consider thoughtful infill development differently than we did 53 years ago. Density in a key area of the City that serves our community. I think so. This community needs more housing options with updated available units, and I think this proposal is a good solution for how the missing middle gets built by US together. Yellow properties are properties currently have single-family use. In orange, multiunit properties. Same type of use that we are proposing. Ive depicted the subject property green DOT and two adjacent comparables to the south with Black dots. In terms of adjacent properties and surrounding development directly to the south at 1007 Arch Street, two unit, two-story, multifamily on a 50 by 95 lot. Two units on a 50 by 95 lot is the same proposal with this application, and has the same use that assists --

Lynn Hurtak

6:15:53PM I cannot see this.

Alan Clendenin

6:15:55PM Cttv, can we get this on the public screen? There we go. Thank you.

Lynn Hurtak

6:16:00PM Thank you. What we are trying to propose. Here are the photos and property record cards. 1007 directly to the south first. So you can see that IT is two stories, two units, and its on a 50 by 95. Directly east of that you will see that IT is actually on a 50 by 95 as well. I dont want to go too fast so she can see. Two stories, four units and also on a 50 by 95. These lots that im referring to are directly south of the property, directly adjacent to the subject property. Examine the broader development pattern in this area, every residential block in every direction has at least two lots of zoned or built multiunit development. Parcels On Each Street, here are the totals. Street to the west is 25 lots of multiunit by parcel. The Street to the southwest is 17%. The Street to the south of that is 33 percent. The Street immediately south is 40 percent. Which consists of the closest comparables I mentioned at 1007 and 1005 Arch Street. South of that also 40%. In conclusion, the development pattern in this part of the neighborhood shows that proposal is in line with what exists in the surrounding area now. Additionally, there is a bonus provision agreement that provides a benefit to the City in the form of a payment towards a community infrastructure project which benefits our community even further. This project helps address the continued demand for housing near tampas urban core. As the City continues to grow, providing a range of housing options within established neighborhoods is an important part of supporting that growth. IT is an opportunity for US to provide infill units in a Responsible Way. For these reasons, I respectfully request approval of Rez 26-02. I do want to show alley.

Alan Clendenin

6:17:53PM Lets see some alleys.

6:18:03PM IT seems like based on My own observation, seems like this is a drivable alley. Have natural resources conflicts because we are going to be put in a position where we are removing other peoples trees that are either on the property line or encroaching past the property line. And with the presence of branches, brush, trees, and root systems, there really is not a Considerate Way to do that without having to remove other neighbors' trees that I dont own on My property. So these are a few examples that I was able to take photos of. I have some more as well on the east side of the alley. So there are several oaks. This is not on the property, but theres some overhead clearance concerns with a tree that encroaches into the alley. Little bit of HVAC equipment that I believe encroaches in the alley. And then I believe a specimen-sized healthy live oak tree thats encroaching in the alley. That is the reason for the waiver in this case.

6:19:14PM How wide is the alley? Trees and such.

6:19:22PM But the alley is 14 feet, right?

6:19:28PM Usually your stuff just flies through. Again, the alley -- I mean, IT appears drivable to me, as you can see through the shots. I dont think any of these are alley-wide shots. And I hear what youre saying, these are along the edge of the alley. But IT seems like a usable. Of course, IT is in the overlay district. That is a really important factor in the overlay district is US reclaiming the use of these alleys. The project itself looks great. By The Way, funny, spent so much time on the density and the issue on this because to me that is a no-brainer. I went right past that because youre right there at julian b. Lane. I get IT. Infill, creating density there. Thats not even a factor for me. The only factor on this is the alleyway, which if you look at your plan, if that was flipped where you had alley access and you had a porch on the front, man, this would be a beautiful project for West Tampa. Literally do 180 degrees on this house and flip IT, IT would fit perfectly into the neighborhood. Thats my only discussion. Council have any other questions? Possible to do a revision between first and second reading. I just as a thoughtful neighbor developing in my own community, I want to prevent a situation where im knocking on a neighbors door, saying, weve got to take out the tree.

6:20:59PM I get IT. That.

6:21:05PM You could blame IT on US. I know We recently just had a site plan where We came back with two sheets of amendments between first and second reading. I know this is an unusual, but if this was literally just a flip, how difficult would that be between first and second? On the record, please.

Stephanie Pope

6:21:31PM Development Coordination. They can do that between first and second reading. IT would just make IT a little bit longer of a second reading so that They would have to show the site plan.

Alan Clendenin

6:21:40PM Gotcha. Thank you very much, Stephanie. Appreciate IT. Did you want to add anything else before I ask for public comment? I would add one more thing. We have a plan, this exact plan for the alley-loaded garage. If We think its that important, We can sub that in. I dont think its really that complicated just for two units. We can absolutely consider that.

6:22:03PM I hate to be that curmudgeon, but IT is the West Tampa overlay. Very good. Anybody else in the public that wishes to speak to this item? Come up to the podium. Start with your name and youll have three minutes. Good evening. My name is Delphine Jones. Im with West Tampa CAC, board member, though im not representing them. Im representing the neighborhood, west riverfront. Vice president. He said his neighborhood and his community, its been my community for 66 years. And a couple of other peoples community. And we do care about our community. Now, this is not consistent with the overlay, this alley, wanting to put a garage in the front. The other issue we have, he said he had so many e-mails. Well, he didnt hand you the e-mail of the people. But I have my neighbors here and the people who live there make the neighborhood what IT is. And its becoming a pattern. Thats my problem with IT, too. We have too much density. We cant even get out of our own neighborhood. And this is a pattern. Now, IT started off with one. Count about five or SIX on another hand. Its just not going to ever stop. Plus we got the park. We got ut students, and now you want to on one parcel put a single-family semi detached. I havent had peace in my neighborhood for 25 years. Its always something. Blocked in, okay, I stay on la salle, 1500 block. Then you get Down The Street, heres one of the single-family semi detached in the middle. I cant even see the view of downtown anymore. Im not getting any pleasure or relaxation in my own neighborhood that I lived all my life. Now, some changes are good, but this is just much.

6:24:12PM Thank you very much. Anybody else in the public wishing to speak to this item? Come on up. Start with your name and youll have three minutes. Im Lou Sheer. I live at 1315 West State Street. I live about three blocks from the site. But what I wanted to say when he said there was not a lot of -- enough single-family homes in the neighborhood, ive been on my block for about 40 years. And about several, four, five new houses are there. Single-family nice ranch homes. Every house that gets knocked down, either two families, they put two structures on there, or either they build a quadplex or try to build a single detachment. So there are plenty single-families in our neighborhood that lots have become more houses than we have seen before. I used to be able to walk out of my house and look From State Street All The Way down to Armenia. Now when I turn right, I got hundreds and hundreds of neighbors, Developers right on cypress. I dont mind people coming into the neighborhood, but like Delphine said, when you try to come out on cypress, you are blocked. We put up signs "do not park" from here to there. Some of the signs have been taken down. You know, im thinking about people that live in the neighborhood, that live in those apartment complexes. We cant get across cass sometimes for all the traffic thats coming to go to Walmart or coming back. But we are saying we dont mind changes. Oh, another thing that was very important, we had a meeting at Julian B. Lane about the two-story houses and there was a three-story house, City Worker. He said three-story house slipped in some Kind Of Way through the city. He said slipped in. But since those years have passed, there have been several three-story homes popping up in our neighborhood on different blocks. So we just want to say something is not right. Three-story home, first two-story homes put on a single-family lot. Now its three story homes squeezing in on corners, in between. So were just asking that somebody remember US thats been there 40, 50, 60 years, and we have students. We have elderly people that need the paramedics and the emergency vehicles, so we just ask that someone could look out for US and not just build, build, build. Thank you.

6:26:57PM Thank you very much. Anybody else in the public wishing to speak to this item? Start with your name. You have three minutes. My name is Linda Hernandez. Ive been living On Nassau Street for 57 years. Its getting overcrowded. Delphine, her daughter, just is on here, she had an accident, a car accident because its a lot of traffic coming through there. They are not stopping. When I go to Walmart, on Oregon, you gotta stop and you gotta wait for traffic Coming Your Way because they are parking and its not enough room. Its like they are building these complexes up. But they dont have enough space for people to park, and you cant drive by. And when you go out of cypress, trying to get over, you cant see. You got to Guess Your Way out. Its like going to be an accident. They need to put a four-way stop if they are going to have that because those apartments that are over there, and you cant see when a car is coming. I have problems with that. Im against IT.

6:28:12PM Which intersection are you talking about? Walmart on Oregon, and if you want to cut across cypress.

6:28:21PM Thank you very much. Well bring that to mobilitys attention. Thank you. Anybody else in the public wishing to speak? Yes, sir, come on up. Start with your name. You have three minutes. My name is Stanley Sanders. I live on the 1100 block of la salle. I just wanted to say I am for the approval of this. Im a Tampa Bay member for about 30 years. Ive lived in this house probably for about four years. The general environment of the neighborhood is basically new parent families like me coming in, older members who have been there for 40, 50, 60 years, and a lot of college students. Building on these lots are pretty expensive, as we know, so breaking them down into two does make IT a little more affordable for the families coming in. And anybody else who would like to live in the area. I think what the applicant is doing is favorable for the neighborhood. As we know, these houses only last so long. Usually the older they get, they go down two routes. Either tear down. They sit vacant. Sometimes the maintenance wont be there or they have to build something new. Thats why im in support for this because this is the time, if were going to build something new, were going to bring the density to the neighborhood that we need. That, more families like my family will be able to enjoy in the future and thats what I have to say. Thank you so much, Council Members.

6:30:05PM Thank you very much. Anybody else in the public that wishes to speak to this item? Come on up.

06:30:21PM Okay. [Swearing in]

06:30:28PM Thank you. Start with your name, please. Good evening, Council Members. I am a resident at 33607 in West Tampa, near west lasalle. Which is the subject of rez 2602 requesting a rezoning from rs-50 to planned development. I want to take a moment to share my support for this request as someone who lives in the surrounding area to see how this part of Tampa has continued to grow and attract more interest from people who want to live close to the city. One of the challenges that Tampa is facing is a need for more housing options in established neighborhoods. Projects like this helps create opportunities for more people to live near Parks, jobs, and amenities that make Tampa such a Great Place to live. With nearby destinations like julian b. Lane block, riverwalk extension, and the future rome yard district, this part of the city has become an Increasingly Attractive Place for residents such as myself with thoughtful renovation of an area like this helps to ensure that the neighborhood continues to grow in a Responsible Way. As someone who lives nearby, I want to see the area continue to thrive, I believe this proposal will be a positive step forward for in community. For these reasons, I ask you to approve rez 26-02. Thank you very much.

06:31:55PM Thank you very much. Anyone else from the public? Public comment is closed.

Guido Maniscalco

06:32:00PM So moved.

Alan Clendenin

06:32:03PM Applicant, you have rebuttal. I want to mention one thing. I heard that parking congestion and overall traffic flow was a concern. You know, the intersection at the corner of Oregon and cypress, and I dont have much control over that. I do think IT is important to have caution at that intersection. I personally experienced how cars can whip through there. If possible, I would -- I would love to support taking another look at that. I will say, though, I made a graphic here. So we just had the Pbs "be my neighbor." And everything I aligned in red there, they are parking Bumper-To-Bumper across our entire neighborhood. I did my walk that day. And I said this is kind of crazy and that was a week ago. I think IT is kind of worth mentioning that is also outside of my control. Things like that dont happen often. But a recent memory of super congested parking right in our neighborhood. I dont have anything else to add.

06:33:12PM Thats good. I didnt imply that mobility issues were the developers problems. That is highlighting our follow-up questions to mobility about that intersection since IT was brought to our attention. Miss Pope, do you have something to add?

Stephanie Pope

06:33:26PM Stephanie Pope, land Development Coordination. For the record, I want to make sure we confirm that the Applicant is okay with improving the alley from north Delaware to the parcel should he use the alleyway for entryway to the project.

Alan Clendenin

06:33:44PM Can you come back up to the microphone, James? The alley to the nearest right-of-way which is to west?

Stephanie Pope

06:33:58PM Yes, Sir.

06:34:01PM An additional item would be for the second reading, The Applicant would need additional weeks in order to revise the site plan. So would there be another second reading that would be after April 2 that he will be able to do that?

Alan Clendenin

06:34:22PM Clerk, can you look at that for US?

Martin Shelby

06:34:32PM The 16th of April? Is that a sufficient amount of time?

Alan Clendenin

06:34:56PM Whats that?

Martin Shelby

06:35:01PM I am looking at your calendar, and the next regular session after is the 16th of April. Will that give her enough time?

Stephanie Pope

06:35:09PM Yes, Sir.

Martin Shelby

06:35:11PM Room for a second reading.

Alan Clendenin

06:35:13PM Lets go for that. Are you good? All thumbs up? Okay. April 16 will be the second. Okay. So if we read this, if IT passes, that will be IT. Can I reentertain the motion to close?

Guido Maniscalco

06:35:28PM So moved.

Luis Viera

06:35:30PM Second.

Lynn Hurtak

06:35:31PM Aye.

Alan Clendenin

06:35:33PM Opposed have IT. Council member Maniscalco, read item number 6.

Guido Maniscalco

06:35:39PM Including the revisions?

Alan Clendenin

06:35:41PM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

06:35:42PM I will read IT, and we will see where IT goes. Ordinance presented for first reading consideration. An ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 100 West Lasalle Street in the City Of Tampa, in more particularly described as rs-50, residential single-family to PD, single-family detached. And provided an effective date and the revisions as discussed between first and second reading. Second reading can come in that Mid-April regular session.

Alan Clendenin

06:36:20PM Clerk will read that. Very good. Motion from council member Maniscalco. Second from -- second from Councilwoman Young. Roll call, please.

Guido Maniscalco

06:36:28PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

06:36:32PM Yes.

Naya Young

06:36:33PM Yes.

Luis Viera

06:36:34PM Yes.

Bill Carlson

06:36:38PM No.

Charlie Miranda

06:36:39PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

06:36:41PM Yes.

Clerk

06:36:41PM Motion carries with Carlson voting no. Second reading and adoption will be held on April 16, 2026 at 10 am. At old city hall located at 315 e. Kennedy, Tampa, Florida -- 315 e. Kennedy, third floor, Tampa, Florida 33602.

Alan Clendenin

06:37:05PM Thank you very much. Item number 7.

Stephanie Pope

06:37:08PM Stephanie Pope, land Development Coordination. Agenda item number 7, rez 26-03 to rezone for residential single-family detached. I will turn IT over to the Planning Commission staff.

Quinn Steele

06:37:27PM Quinn Steele, Planning Commission staff. IT is in the West Tampa urban village and in evacuation zone c. IT is outlined in purple. Two blocks west of the previous case and south of 275. This portion of west lasalle is developed with single-family homes with two-family and institutional uses nearby, excuse me, including the first baptist church of West Tampa, which is right here. This map shows the site designated residential-20, north of r-35, and mmu 5 designation. Request from rs-50 to PD to allow four semi-detached units on a vacant site. Density anticipated under the designation. Planning Commission reviewed the request and found IT compatible with the surrounding neighborhood front doors of west lasalle with pedestrian connections to the sidewalk. Infill within West Tampa and consistent with the comprehensive plan and that concludes our presentation. Available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

06:38:31PM Available for any questions? Hearing none.

Stephanie Pope

06:38:34PM Stephanie Pope, land Development Coordination. An aerial view of the subject site and the surrounding area. This is right Down The Road from where we just were. Here is the subject site outlined in red on the north side of west lasalle. This is Oregon, rome, And North Boulevard is over here, 275 there. Subject site is surrounded by rs-50, single-family detached uses. Some recent rezonings in the area that you can see along here. Some of them are single-family detached, and some of them are semi-detached. Next, we will show the site plan provided by The Applicant. Here is west lasalle. The Applicant is proposing two semi-detached units with frontage along west lasalle, which is here. There is a one-car garage and one parking space for each unit. Entry is from west lasalle. Each unit is proposed to be two stories. Here are the elevations provided by The Applicant. The subject site in West Tampa overlay and r-20 that allows for three units per right. Given the size The Applicant is wanting four units and entered a bonus agreement for the additional unit. Two waivers requested. One waiver to request to allow for vehicular access to the lot to the front rather than the alley and a second waiver to reduce building separation from 15 feet to 10 foot, 8 inches. Next, I will show some photos of the subject site and the surrounding area. Here is the subject site as you can see, the exist homes on-site were recently demolished. East of site looking toward north willow. This is southwest of the site on west lasalle. West of the site. This is west more toward Oregon. And then this is east of the site. Development Coordination and compliance staff reviewed the application and find the request to be consistent with the land development code. Should City Council approve application and waivers requested, the modification to the site plan is shown on the submitted revision sheet must be completed between first and second reading. I am available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

06:41:22PM I guess You are anticipating what my next question will be. Transportation.

Stephanie Pope

06:41:26PM Yes, sir. So for the --

Alan Clendenin

06:41:34PM For the alley?

Stephanie Pope

06:41:36PM For the alley. Would you like to ask staff --

Alan Clendenin

06:41:39PM Yes, sir. You can come up. Do you want to do IT -- do you want our Staff to come up and talk about the transportation, talk about the alley? Lets get staffs perspective and then the Applicant.

Jonathan Scott

06:42:01PM Jonathan Scott, Transportation.

Alan Clendenin

06:42:03PM Loading from the back of the adjacent property. Rear-facing garages on this alley.

Jonathan Scott

06:42:09PM I didnt see any.

Alan Clendenin

06:42:10PM I think there is based and my observations on Google Maps.

Jonathan Scott

06:42:14PM IT is not paved either, but this one is -- I 06:42:17pm mean, You Can Drive on IT. IT is drivable.

Alan Clendenin

06:42:21PM You saw rear-loading garages on the alley to the east -- in my research, I think, to the east of IT.

Jonathan Scott

06:42:26PM Okay.

Alan Clendenin

06:42:27PM We will talk the Applicant. Thank you. Any other questions for Stephanie? Hearing none, Applicant. West Lasalle Street for four-unit single-family detached. We can start with your questions. You have a question of where garages are facing the alley?

06:42:55PM I believe in my research looking at this, there are rear-loading garages on the alley already on that lot -- on that block. Properties on this block that are using alley. IT is in red. There are no properties. There are none.

06:43:19PM In google map, I thought I saw cars parked in back. Hearing this evening and appreciated her comments. We do have a -- a parking challenge. And the reason why is because the -- lots marked in red had zero on-site parking. Subject in green and zero parking. And these four, which are more narrow homes. There is a -- there is a parcel of vacant land and then the -- the one on the end does not have any on-site parking designated. You will see IT on overhead. That leads to people parking in the front because no on-site parking.

06:44:09PM Maybe they are parking in the back because of Google Maps. Department and the property was -- the property was historically four units. We are intending to keep IT four units. 2022, the property was boarded up and unoccupied. By 2025, IT accumulated an array -- abundance of code violations for overgrowth and disrepair and we had an opportunity to get in touch with the owner and in that process, we acquired the property and cured the code violations and purchased IT from the Former Owner. Since moving in this neighborhood, that is kind of how IT looked. This is a thoughtful addition to the neighborhood, and IT is growing. Community support has been strong from people within a block of the proposal that he spoken with. The one thing I wanted to mention. Only one waiver we are requesting, which is the alley waiver. I dont believe there is a waiver required when we have ten feet of separation on the site plan when we intend to sell the units fee simple. So that might be a point of clarification here in a second. I am open to a discussion about the alley. I think I have some additional alley comments and photos from the site that I will show. IT is similar. The biggest concern is -- we will be encroaching into this protected root zone of this oak that is to the west. I will give IT a second so we can look at that. There is an oak in the back yard of the property that is furthest --

06:46:07PM That is in the back yard, right? IT is not blocking the alley.

06:46:14PM Okay, gotcha. Of the trees growing and encroaching on alley. A 14-foot-wide platted alley, but the plat doesnt care where the trees grow. I will leave that for a second if there are any questions.

06:46:39PM I mean, based on what I saw, seems to be a lot of tire treads. FDOT using that alley to access the interstate? A lot of tire treads in there. Who do you think is using that?

06:46:58PM Tends to be treaded and vegetation is tapped down shows that the alley is being used by somebody, like FDOT. Have you been out there to see that?

06:47:12PM Gotcha. Okay. What struggle would you have to do the back loading alleys064720pm What are your thoughts of that as far as the Developer?

06:47:27PM Paving and your development plan itself. What challenges would you have if you did a back-loading alley. I am concerned that IT starts to become a bother for someone who occupies the structure. And then they end up parking in the front anyway. And that could potentially make the problem worse that we are trying to avoid to start with by putting parking in the rear. In terms of developing the site, just the coordination with neighbors and there are odd tree things since the tree is on their lot or in the alley or somewhere in between and how do we really navigate that The Right Way to remove tree when IT is needed when IT is not a site that I have own. I never have done that. So I would have to figure IT out.

06:48:12PM Very good. Anything else? Respectfully, request approval of Rez-26-03.

06:48:27PM Council have any questions? Councilwoman Hurtak, do you have any questions on this one?

Lynn Hurtak

06:48:35PM No.

Alan Clendenin

06:48:35PM Any concerns of alley access on this?

Lynn Hurtak

06:48:40PM I do, but -- this seems to be The Perfect Place to have alley access because IT backs up to the interstate. So, yeah, I tend to agree with you on this.

Alan Clendenin

06:48:52PM Okay. Anybody else? I am willing to do the same thing. Not my first preference but willing to do the same thing as the other site, if that is an option.

Charlie Miranda

06:49:11PM If I May, let me just read this about the alley. Planning Commission said -- I am just looking at IT. IT is on page 6 of the Planning Commission report, however corresponding with the City Of Tampa Transportation Department uploaded on acela January 2026, adjacent alley is open and unpaved and no regular vehicle use based on the existing conditions, Transportation Department represent the citys for of the applicants request of the alley. I believe I have the right one, number 7, right? And all the public portion Of Lasalle Street between north willow and north Oregon, excluding the subject site is developed in 12.5 Dwelling units per acre based on seven sample sites. 625% Of density anticipated under residential-20 designation. If approved, PD will allow for potential development of four dwelling units and density of 18.18 Units per acre. Proposed development reflects the existing development pattern of an average density and a portion Of Lasalle Street. Planning Commission staff found that the proposed rezoning would allow for the development pattern envisioned in the comprehensive plan. For housing and slightly higher density in the surrounding area supported by plan policy 9.7.1. I never met or talked to this gentleman in my life. Alan Clendenin: I dont think anybody -- the density --

06:50:50PM While we are doing something of that.

Alan Clendenin

06:50:52PM Important for the neighbors. We have a Comprehensive Plan that anticipates this density. That is not even under discussion because they are already allowed density in this Comprehensive Plan and directing growth. Again, IT is ironic -- I am not strongly feel of this alley as I was the other one. But do you already have plans drawn up for this -- for the alley facing the fourplex here? We have a 50 x 95 two-unit site that Faces The Street with a single-car garage and another version that faces the alley.

06:51:35PM We Love The Street facing porches, West Tampa overlay district. I mean, thats kind of direction we want to go. If you are able to accomplish that, I think ideally, that is the better development in this location and trying to use that. Again, having that forward facing. We are all big fans of your projects. I think what you try to do is really good in this neighborhood. But, yeah, I would much prefer that. I mean, I am only one of seven, but thats what I would say. Councilwoman Young, you want to do the microphone?

Naya Young

06:52:14PM I would agree. I was looking -- You showed drawings. But having the porch in the front seems to kind of fit the character of the neighborhood. If that is possible we can make that change, I would like to see that. Just so I understand which changes are You asking for specifically, the garage in the rear?

06:52:36PM Thats what we are talking about, right? Is IT possible to share the screen? That is a rendering how IT will look with the garage in the front. No issue with changing rear, but how IT.

Alan Clendenin

06:52:49PM Obviously pretty but suburban compared to urban in West Tampa look at that, you wouldnt -- you would cry out Brandon, you wouldnt cry out West Tampa. A pretty house. Beautiful design. But we are looking for that -- for the West Tampa overlay district. We are looking for that porch. To get neighbors out in the front yard. Having parking location in the back would be great. Anybody else? Anything else you want to share? I think we beat that dead horse. Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Crime Watch Group. I am in agreeance with the parking in the back, because that is the overlay standards. And she mentioned something about three units instead of four, if I -- if I heard right. Did -- I know IT is four units, but I thought somewhere there you said IT could be three units instead of four.

06:54:01PM We will address that when you are finished -- that question. All my life. That lot is not that big. I am not really in agreeance with IT that much, because, like I said, I think IT is too much density. And we cant get out of our neighborhood. My Daughter just had an accident. Someone ram her into the house. Those are the problems we keep having. So I am just not happy in my neighborhood because IT havent been a neighborhood for me for 25 years.

06:54:39PM Miss Pope, would you like to address the bonus density? She will answer the question for you.

Stephanie Pope

06:54:48PM Stephanie Pope, Development Coordination. Some with their future land use of r- 20. They are allowed three units by right, and they have provided -- agreed to a bonus provision that allows an extra unit to allow for four units in total.

Alan Clendenin

06:55:03PM Thank you very much. Anyone else from the public wishes to speak? Start with your name and you have three minutes. And I am against IT because even though they have garages, they have family that are going to come and there will be parking everywhere. So even though they have garages, that dont mean nothing to me, because we have so much traffic and if we have events, we still wont be able to get by. That is my concern.

06:55:32PM Thank you, maam. Next speaker? Anybody else? I live in the block one block east of the property. Wanted to share my support for several years at the property. This property 1307 has been vacant without proper maintenance, becoming an eyesore for those of US who live On The Street. Seeing someone step in with the intention to improve and redevelop the property is something that a lot of our residents would like to welcome. I am encouraging this site. Previously, IT was four units. Again, he is asking for four units. I would say on -- on the parking issue, I -- I personally like parking in the front. I know a lot of the -- the neighbors and houses On The Street also have front parking. If They dont, what usually happens is They park on -- On The Street or on the grass itself. I think that putting the garages front facing just makes IT easy. I think that we do want to encourage people to use the alleyways, but I think the -- what usually happens is They dont just use IT, and They kind of park where IT is most convenient. Usually what is most convenient is right on the front or on the grass. I think given that option to put IT there in front, just makes IT really easy for the residents. Especially those who are there. I know neighboring properties They have the driveways in the front. As stated before, on the west side, They do not. They have no parking at all. They all park On The Street anyways. Thank you, Council.

06:57:25PM Thank you very much. Anyone else wish to speak on this item? Start with your name please. Instead of four. Because that is going to add more traffic and more density to the neighborhood. Thank you.

06:57:51PM Thank you very much. Anyone else from the public wish to speak to this item? Good evening, Council Members. Live in the same zip code as the property West Lasalle Street, which is the subject of the rez 26-03 requesting a rezoning from rs-50 to planned development. I wanted to come tonight to share my support for this request, similar to the previous item. This proposal reflect the time of thoughtful investment that helps neighborhoods continue to improve as the city grow. This part of Tampa is in a unique position with major amenities and development nearby. Projects like this help to ensure the properties keep pace with the positive momentum happening around them. Responsible redevelopment can bring new residents and activity that help support community growth and deliver units our city needs. As someone who lives in area and wants to see the neighborhood continue in a positive direction, I believe this project is a positive step forward of growth And Taking Place in the west riverfront neighborhood. For those reasons, I encourage to you approve rez 26-03.

06:59:14PM Thank you very much. Anyone else wish to speak to this item? Hearing none. Applicant. Tonight, I wanted to reaffirm, four units before, four units after. This property was an eyesore to the neighborhood for four-plus years, and IT was not buyable to restore. IT was too far gone. Roof was caving in. No issue with parking in the rear on public record. Want to state that, no issue with parking in the rear and improve the alley to the right-of-way, which is willow. To the east. And one thing I did want to mention is the bonus provision that I am entering into an agreement with the City to get the fourth unit and carries multiple tens thousands of dollars of infrastructure improvement for the City as doing this project. That concludes my point.

Stephanie Pope

07:00:10PM Stephanie Pope, Development Coordination. I want to state on the record that as of right now there is supposed to be only one waiver, and that is the waiver to request or allow for vehicular access to the lot from the front rather than from the alley; however, if the applicant does change the plan and allow alley access and improvement to the nearest right-of-way to the alley and the addition of porches in the front would eliminate that waiver as well and then there would be no waivers.

Alan Clendenin

07:00:42PM Thats good. That is very good. Can I get a motion to close?

Guido Maniscalco

07:00:51PM So moved.

Charlie Miranda

07:00:52PM Second.

Alan Clendenin

07:00:54PM Actually -- We need to get you all to -- is that sufficient with the Applicant?

Lynn Hurtak

07:01:05PM You have to close.

Alan Clendenin

07:01:06PM We are debating here. Hold on to second. Was that sufficient with the applicants agreeing to change the design between first and second and with the understanding this will come back on the 16th. Are We good on all of that?

Martin Shelby

07:01:21PM This will be the same date -- the extra time that is needed to make that -- the April 16, thats correct.

Alan Clendenin

07:01:28PM You are good with that as well.

07:01:32PM A motion to close from Council Member Maniscalco. Second from Council Member Miranda. Council Member Miranda, read item number 7.

Charlie Miranda

07:01:42PM File number 7, rez-26-03. Ordinance presented for first reading 1307 West Lasalle Street in the City of Tampa, Florida, more technically described from section 1 from zoning rs-50, residential single-family to PD planned development residential single-family semi-detached providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

07:02:06PM With the agreed to changes.

Charlie Miranda

07:02:10PM Between first and second and the Applicant and the City Officials.

Alan Clendenin

07:02:13PM Very good. A motion from Council Member Miranda. A second from Council Member Maniscalco. Roll call, please.

Charlie Miranda

07:02:19PM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

07:02:21PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

07:02:22PM Yes.

Naya Young

07:02:24PM Yes.

Luis Viera

07:02:25PM Yes.

Bill Carlson

07:02:27PM No.

Alan Clendenin

07:02:28PM Yes.

Clerk

07:02:29PM Motion carries with Carlson voting no. Just to clarify something, April 16th as well.

Alan Clendenin

07:02:39PM Yes.

Clerk

07:02:39PM Second reading and adoption. April 16, 2026 at 10 am. At old city hall located 315 e. Kennedy, third floor, Tampa, Florida, 33602.

Chris Demanche

07:03:00PM Christopher Demanche. Application to rezone from RS 250 to planned development for single-family attached uses. I will turn IT now over to Planning Commission staff.

Quinn Steele

07:03:11PM Quinn Steele, Planning Commission staff. This site is within the west shore planning district, west palms, and evacuation zone a. Subject site is zoned in purple. 275 is directly North And Westshore Boulevard is two blocks west of west shore plaza. A mix of single-family homes, duplexes, town homes, and multifamily development. This map shows the site designated residential-20 and north of i-275. The request is to rezone from rs-50 to PD for four detached units, and currently on a site that has one single-family home. Consistent with the density anticipated under the r-20. Planning Commission staff reviewed the request and found IT compatible with the surrounding neighborhood. Front door orientation of West Clemen Street with sidewalk connections to the right-of-way. Overall. The proposal supports compatible infill and consistent with the comprehensive plan. That concludes the presentation and I am available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

07:04:16PM Any questions? Hearing none. Yes, Sir? Not a good hearing unless somebody throws papers.

Chris Demanche

07:04:27PM Okay. Christopher Demanche, land Development Coordination. Start with the subject site. Outlined in red, locate on the west side of West Carmen Street. Subject block is east of west of North Manhattan Avenue. Looking at the overall aerial. I-275 located to the north and to the east and south single-family detached dwellings, zoned rs-50. To west a single-family detached dwelling zoned rm-18. IT should also be noted that southwest of the subject site, we do have some parcels zoned PD on both the north side of West Gray Street and on the south side of West Gray Street. Those sites have been developed with single-family attached dwelling units. Also. On the south side of West Gray Street, further south on the subject site, we have additional single-family attached dwellings. That parcel is zoned PD. Southeast, we have rm-18 zoning. Those lots have been approved with semi-detached units and farther east a PD parcel developed with single-family attached dwelling units. We do have -- we do have a site plan provide by Applicant. 3390 square feet in area. Applicant is proposing construction of one structure containing four single-family attached dwelling units. Each unit will provide a two-car garage. Front doors for units two through four face the east property line; whereas, unit one, front door is oriented to West Carmen Street. Also, a parking spot located on the south side of the property. Given the size of the site, a maximum of four dwelling units are allowed by right. Next, we do have elevations to show. Showing elevations in all directions. Shows the three-story structure with a maximum height of 40 feet. There are two waivers with this application this evening. First is to section 27-282. This is a request to allow front doors of units two, three, and four to face the side lot Line Or Drive aisle rather than an internal courtyard andy right-of-way. Second waiver is to exception 27-284. This is request to reduce the required five-foot Use-To-Use buffer four feet of the west and three feet along the south property line. Lets see here. Next. We have photos of subject site and surrounding parcels. First is the subject site itself. Looking north, we can see 275. South of the subject site, this will be Along Gray Street. East of subject sitw and west of subject site. Development Staff has reviewed this application and found IT consistent with the land development code. Should IT be the City Council to approve, site plans as shown on the submitted revision sheet will be completed between first and second reading, and I am available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

07:08:17PM Any questions? Hearing none. Applicant? Representing 4420 West Carmen Street. Rez 26-06. First generation born and raised in Tampa, Florida. My family has been in construction for 30 years and here locally. First hand seeing the city evolve, growing up near uptown Tampa. I want to use my skills we build over the time to help IT grow. This project is an opportunity for me to contribute to the neighborhood we know and love. We are requesting are zoning that the City Staff has reviewed and found IT consistent with applicable land development regulations and comprehensive plan. This is a site that effectively uses city infrastructure and instead of pushing further urban sprawl. IT adds the missing middle ownership unit in the location where the comprehensive plan already anticipates more than just detached homes, which is exactly where the direction of the city is moving with the current land development code update. I am excited by the citys visionary west shore development plaza and this probably delivers much-needed housing within walk distance, strengthening the walkable vibrant future. .4 Miles away. For these reasons, we respectfully ask you to approve rez-26-32 with the revision sheets between first and second reading.

07:10:02PM Council have any questions? CCTV, have Councilwoman Hurtak online?

Lynn Hurtak

07:10:10PM No questions.

Alan Clendenin

07:10:11PM Hearing none. I hear a lot of staff discussion. If you can get IT added. The Gentleman added between first and second reading for the record --

07:11:01PM Is that appropriate?

Susan Johnson-Velez

07:11:06PM Susan Johnson-Velez, Legal Department. Normally, we require the person speaking on behalf to be authorized to speak at the hearing. I dont know if they are going to be -- if council discussions or any changes made, we will have to make sure that one agree to those before they go forward.

Alan Clendenin

07:11:23PM If we dont have any changes, that wont be a problem. Why dont we trudge forward and see where this goes. Go ahead. The Owener Of The Property. The Owner is My Dad.

07:11:47PM Understood. Very good.

07:11:49PM Anyone in the public that wishes to speak to this item? I have done some projects in this area. Like the walkability of west shore plaza redevelopment. Thoughtful infill in an area where Tampa can benefit from and support and encourage you to approve this request.

07:12:12PM Thank you. Something else?

Chris Demanche

07:12:15PM For the record, Chris Demanche, land Development Coordination. Speaking among staff, IT is our opinion that we should look for a continuance to address this issue with the -- with the agent authorization form before continuing forward. That would be our request, but we leave IT up to your --

Alan Clendenin

07:12:35PM Mr. Shelby and then miss Susan Johnson-Velez. You want to defer to susan?

Martin Shelby

07:12:45PM I would. And I suspect that is She would say the same thing. You dont rely on competent, substantial evidence of sworn testimony of somebody who is supposed to be representing the Applicant without that authorization.

Susan Johnson-Velez

07:13:00PM Susan Johnson-Velez, thats correct. Because we -- I mean, we dont know if the owner -- if he is an authorized representative. There are two other people listed, but neither one of them is in gentleman.

Alan Clendenin

07:13:17PM If I am hearing both of you correctly, our hands are tied. The suggestion to -- of this issue is to continue this item.

Martin Shelby

07:13:28PM Council, if I can follow up with that. Understand councils desire to sometimes want to accommodate, but when we are dealing with private property rights, we have to go by book.

Alan Clendenin

07:13:39PM I understand.

Lynn Hurtak

07:13:41PM I have a question.

Alan Clendenin

07:13:41PM Council Member Carlson and then councilwoman Hurtak.

Bill Carlson

07:13:48PM Quick question. I dont have the application in front of me. Is the Owner the one on the application or is the Representative on the application?

Martin Shelby

07:13:54PM The Owner signed authorizing two different individuals. Neither of whom are here this evening.

Bill Carlson

07:14:01PM I see.

Alan Clendenin

07:14:04PM Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

07:14:06PM My question of scheduling. Is there a way to schedule this to the next meeting, or does that -- does this have to be renoticed?

Alan Clendenin

07:14:16PM We are talking of continuation.

Lynn Hurtak

07:14:17PM Sorry, thats what I meant. We dont have a March evening -- not a second March evening meeting. I forgot about that. Never mind. The first April one.

Alan Clendenin

07:14:30PM IT will be a continuation of a first reading. Yes, Sir?

Chris Demanche

07:14:39PM Chris Demanche, land Development Coordination. We have space on the April 9 agenda and could continue to that hearing.

Guido Maniscalco

07:14:45PM Motion to continue this item, which is rez 26-06, to the April 9.

Martin Shelby

07:14:55PM Date, Time And Place.

Guido Maniscalco

07:14:58PM 315 e. Kennedy, Tampa, Florida. 1000 public hearing. The evening, 5:01 pm., And put IT first on the agenda.

Martin Shelby

07:15:10PM If that is councils pleasure.

Guido Maniscalco

07:15:12PM Are you good with that?

Alan Clendenin

07:15:15PM I am fine with that.

Guido Maniscalco

07:15:17PM 315 e. Kennedy, Tampa, Florida 33602.

Alan Clendenin

07:15:24PM You understand what happened. You are good.

07:15:28PM A motion by council member Maniscalco and a second to continue this. Roll call.

Lynn Hurtak

07:15:34PM Yes.

Naya Young

07:15:37PM Yes.

Luis Viera

07:15:38PM Yes.

Bill Carlson

07:15:40PM Yes.

Charlie Miranda

07:15:41PM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

07:15:42PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

07:15:43PM Yes.

Clerk

07:15:44PM Motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

07:15:46PM Thank you. Our last item on the agenda this evening item, number 9.

Chris Demanche

07:15:51PM Mr. Chairman, Chris Demanche, land Development Coordination. Agenda item number 9 is rez 26-22 to rezone 110 South Boulevard from planned development that allow for residential multifamily and strip center retail of Bank, drive-in uses to planned development for residential multiple family, and Parking Off Street commercial uses. I will now let the Planning Commission to jump in and present.

Alan Clendenin

07:16:20PM Thank you.

Quinn Steele

07:16:25PM Quinn Steele, Planning Commission staff. This is the Hyde Park spanish town and Hyde Park national historic district and in evacuation zone b. Subject property is outlined in purple. Multifamily, commercial and institutional uses. This site is South Of Kennedy Boulevard. One block south of the University of Tampa and directly north of the selmon expressway. Downtown Tampa is a half a mile east. This map shows the site designated residential mixed use 100 -- sorry, regional mixed use 100 that have high intensity office mixed use development. Site located in the periphery bonus and increase intensity that is 100% of the base maximum of a 7.0 Far. On this site. Amend an existing PD to allow a 218,350-square-foot building. And the Applicant has entered into the agreement with the city to achieve a 5.2 Far. Planning Commission found IT compatible. 11-story residential building oriented Toward South Boulevard with sidewalk and pedestrian collection along all adjacent streets. Between first and second reading, Applicant corrects the land use designations on the map as they are currently shown as rmu-35. Overall, redevelopment of an underutilized school. No transit employment and IT is consistent with the comprehensive plan. That concludes my presentation, and im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

07:18:00PM Good job. Thank you. Next.

Chris Demanche

07:18:03PM Again, for the record, Chris Demanche, Development Coordination. Aerial of the subject site, outlined in red. The northeast corner of West Cleveland Street And South Boulevard. Subject Site Has Street frontage Along South Boulevard. And the property is bounded to the north by a residential multiple family development, a vacant lot zoned planned development that is approved for SIX multifamily units. To the east, IT is approved is a ,d -- PD property. Nine-story parking structure. South is the selmon expressway. And west of the site multiple family structure, as well as business and professional office uses. Having a look at the proposed site plan. Subject site totals 41,548 square feet with approximately 220 Feet Of Street frontage and Along South Boulevard, 118 Feet Of Street frontage along West Cleveland Street, and 1 2 Feet Of Street frontage along south Fielding. Through the requested planned development rezoning, the Applicant is proposing redevelopment of the site, which currently is improved with a one-story structure. Previously used for bank uses. They are proposing 11-story residential multiple family structure with 39 units and parking, off-street, to provide on-site parking to the law office building that is located just to the south of the subject site. The site provide ingress and egress Along Cleveland Street as well as ingress and egress along south Fielding. Main entrance of the subject site is Along South Boulevard. There are ancillary entrances provided along east side of the property. There is sidewalk location located along the north property line. There is also a total of 41 parking space provided on-site, as well as 54 indoor bike spaces. Requires 418 spaces. And there is a waiver that I will mention that the Applicant requested. The Applicant is requesting a bonus provision agreement of a subject site at a floor area ratio of 5.2. The bonus agreement is presented currently with their application. Under their future land use designation allowed a 5.4 Far. By right. Next, we have presentations -- sorry, elevations. This is the north elevation. Next, we have south elevation. East elevation. Lastly, we have the west elevation. The maximum height proposed at this building is 162 feet. There are seven waivers requested with this PD rezoning application, and I will be happy to go into those. First waiver is the exception 27-284. This is to remove one hazardous grand tree, tree number 49, rated c-5 in the arborists report. This is actually a waiver that was approved with the existing PD zoning on-site. So IT is the only waiver they are carrying forward from the previous approval for the site. Second waiver is the section 27-283, allow a 12-foot x 29-foot loading piece. Third waiver is section 27-284, request to reduce the required 15-foot use landscape buffer and six-foot-tall masonry wall to be a zero foot land scape buffer and six-foot composite aluminium semi-privacy fence to the east and south. Abutting a specific folio, 194092.0000. Fourth waiver is the section 27-284 the request to have the required 30% multiple family green space area to zero percent subject to landscape and fees in lieu of permitting. The reduce the required parking from 418 spaces to 41. This would be a 90% reduction. Waiver SIX has three parts to IT. Part a is a request to reduce the required 20% vua green space to 14% subject to landscape and in lieu fees. Reduce the parking island width from 15 feet to zero feet. The vua landscape buffer to five feet and SIX feet abbot Butting Cleveland Street. Last waiver, waiver 7, section 27-283, there are is to reduce the required number of loading berths from two to one. Next we have photos of subject site. This is a view of subject site from cleveland. A view of the subject Site From Boulevard. And a view subject site from Fielding. This is the vacant lot to the immediate north. This parcel is zoned PD. This is approved for SIX multiple family dwelling units. North of subject site, you have a multifamily development. Looking south, you can see selmon expressway in the distance. Both east and south of the subject site, we have the Law Firm at the corner of cleveland and Fielding. East of the site, we have a nine-story parking structure. Looking west, we have multiple family structure, as well as business professional offices. And this is closer view of the business and professional offices. Development Review And Compliance Staff has reviewed the application. We find the request inconsistent with the applicable City Of Tampa land development regulations. Should IT be the pleasure of City Council to approve this application, further modifications to the site plan must be completed between first and second reading of the ordinance as stated in the revision sheet. And these revisions will not resolve issues of transportations inconsistent finding. I believe we also passed out -- Jonathan, have we passed those out yet? My apologies, I meant to note this earlier. We made some very minor changes to the -- to the waivers related to natural resources. I did read those waivers into the record as part of my presentation. And so we updated both the revision sheets. And we made some corrections to the staff report. I just wanted to put that out there. My apologies for not mentioning those earlier. That concludes my presentation. I am happy to answer any you May have. I will give you a few moments since we just passed out those changes.

Alan Clendenin

07:26:18PM Can you highlight what the changes were?

Chris Demanche

07:26:21PM We did some fine tuning on natural resources revisions. We also made a very minor change to page number 3, where We talked about existing uses. We previously listed business and professional office uses and Bank uses, and We have cut that down to just reference Bank uses as the previous use on the site.

Alan Clendenin

07:26:41PM Thank you so much. Applicant? My name is Tyler Hudson, address 400 North Ashley Drive, and we will move along. As you can see brought friends with me. An honor to be here with University of Tampa, the property owner and rise, their development pattern, the leading student housing developer in the country. This property will be owned by the University of Tampa for some time and operated as a student housing facility, which Scott will touch on in a moment. I am not going to do full-blown introductions. Our project team here, all of the engineers. The leading student housing architects in the country. And, of course, as with any project I am involved with, Ricky Peterika with dark moss is our arborist. To set the table a little bit. While this is somewhat blank piece of land, not blank from an entitlement perspective. Some of you May remember back in 2022, we were here for a PD building for a multifamily that was intended. IT was a private market rate multifamily development. IT was not pursued with coordination of the university. IT was 23 stories about a 6.7 Far. And near filling up the potential density cup as we talked about in a little bit. We are proposing a reduced plan in accordance with what the universitys needs are. Scott is -- is going to touch on that. I will say, like most multifamily pds of vintage 2022, this was never built for a variety of reasons, one of which as was a very difficult project to capitalize. Scott, if he desires, can talk of how that will work for this site, but I do want to make very clear, that unlike the last proposal, this is being pursued by University of Tampa for the University of Tampa. So with that, Scott, with the University of Tampa, is going to talk a little bit about why this project, as IT currently entitled. Will not work and why we are here seeking a new PD entitlement.

07:29:12PM Good evening, Scott. Design facilities with the University of Tampa. Thank you for having US here today. You know, I really want to kind of get into the why and the how of doing this project. Unfortunately, the private market refuses to build affordable student housing for our students. Because of that, IT has forced the University to stay in this market. So really what our goal here is to provide affordable housing for our students. When our students live on campus, they pay, depending on the TPD, is $800 per bed on a nine-month lease. When we provide housing, they are paying $1600 per month per bed on a 12-month lease. What that means from our students, mean of our rates, a 213% increase in their costs. Costs include utilities, parking, and all that other stuff. So as you can imagine, IT is the number one source of complaints with our parents when we can accommodate their needs. We talked about some of the waivers that we are requesting on here. I think one thing that I want to stress here today is I think we need to look at this as a comprehensive project overall with the University. This is not a standard project alone, which is how IT reads here today. We have 1,122 parking spaces on campus based on our incremental submittal we currently have a parking requirement of 4400 park spaces on campus. That gives US in excess of 722 spaces on campus. I would also like to point out that this parcel is within a very short walking distance of campus. So our plan, just like we do for all of our buildings, we park institutionally. We do not park by individual buildings and will had been consistent with every other student housing building we have on campus. The building itself is assigning Freshmen and Sophomores. Those on City Council when I was here on this project, I went into this in length. Freshmen, per our policies, are not allowed to bring a car to campus and are not giving a parking permit. Majority are not allowed to bring a car to campus or park on campus. Sophomores assigned to this building, they will park in the thomas parking garage which is one block -- I dont know the exact feet distance but extremely close. Same thing with green space. We have to look at this institutional area campus-wise. I think natural resource would agree, but we consider ourselves to be the green standard in the City Of Tampa when IT comes to our tree canopy and green space on campus. Every student who lives in this building will have access to our abundant amount of green space on campus. Worth noting that we built a large community space on the second floor for all these students that has landscaping and outdoor community space. I think IT is important to remember, what is the purpose of green is for storm drainage and also for amenity space. And I think we handled both of those issues with design. I know City Council members were disappointed we were reducing the far. On in project. I think One Thing Way to like to point out on that, the building we are building is 11 stories very consistent with the other buildings we have on campus. We really wanted this to kind of be brought into the general fabric of the campus, which the architecture does a good job of this as well. One thing we found, when you go vertical, you create smaller floor plates, which make IT difficult for students to find their community when they live in those type of projects, and we typically like larger footprint, lower building that helps create a higher use of our community spaces inside the building. With that, I will hand IT off to our team. Thank you. Lets see if this is picking up. Okay. Great. I will just summarize a little bit about the project. Scott stole a lot of my thunder, but I will provide some additional support there. Again, just to orient you all a little further. 11-story building. 238 units. 833 student beds here again orient Along South Boulevard. You know, we have some set ground floor uses. We are obviously highlighting main entry, lobby, and lounge. 2000-square-foot grab and go dining component associated with the building and housing offices, staff offices, essential program in terms of, like, utility, water, fire command center and operational offices and things like that. And -- and bike parking are some of things we have on the ground floor. Scott mentioned the 2400-square-Foot Amenity Terrace on the second level. We have access to fielding and west cleveland. And we are showing the 41 parking spaces there. We call them essential parking spaces that will be for staff to live in the building and staff that are operating building. And then there are some shared spaces through a private agreement for the parcel adjacent. And then we have the improved streetscape along Particularly South Boulevard, but we are Adding That Street lighting, pedestrian lighting that doesnt excite today. We do not show separate bike parking in our PD plan outside the bike room but we plan to add bike parking Along South Boulevard to increase our bike parking a little bit further outside of storage room. And -- and we currently have type one and type two trees around the perimeter of the property. Just the project comparison between the previous project than Scott mentioned and some of differences like we mentioned, the 23 stories versus 11 stories. About the same amount of curb cuts. Previous project had a parking deck. We have surface parking here, but spatially, the use on the site is about the same in terms of the site area used for each. I think one of the other big differences Scott mentioned, the University of Tampa was opposed to sort of a market rate -- the previous project for market rate housing, multifamily. This project here is in full support from the University of Tampa. And I would say designed in coordination with the University of Tampa. We had numerous, numerous meetings going on the design project with the University of Tampa staff to refine this project. Again, IT was referenced the previous project waivers that were listed. This is just a quick comparison of the previous waivers versus the ones that we are requesting now. There were -- there is one we are not requesting and then there are two additional ones, but four of the waivers, even though we understand IT is not vested in this project, we are asking for four waivers that were previously approved. Again, this sort of speaks to some of the waivers here and just sort of highlighting. I know the use area adjacent to the streets was reduced. Again, we were trying to maximize the essential parking for the site, while still allowing for terminal islands to allow for the trees, which I think is the intent of the code there. Again, we are highlighting the property that is at -- the buffer that is adjacent to the -- to adjacent property. As I mentioned, the shared parking that we are looking particularly at. An accessible space that we are providing for the law firm. Not having that buffer benefits both projects for allowing the parking and having that parking in close proximity to the adjacent parcel really helps adjacent parcel. So that is why we are asking for that. Scott had mention the parking and the proximity. You know we are 715 feet away from Rick Thomas garage there. I believe in the existing pd-a that the University has for parking, there is about 750 excess parking spaces available. As Scott mentioned, most of the people living here will be Freshmen. They are not allowed to bring cars to campus and that helps. I believe in the tia. The alternate parking study that basically shows the demand of 123 space is really the demand for this project and in excess of 123 parking spaces in the Rick Thomas garage under 1,000 feet, 750 feet away from campus. We talked about the green space. Scott mentioned IT. You know, their 2400 square feet of amenity space that we are finding on the second level has a safe, Secure Place, exterior covered so you can use that space year round for the students, and really that is about 49% of the required green space there on-site. And then, again, this green space requirement is really coming into play. We dont have the garage to sort of take up that building area. So IT is creating that -- that amount of green space. But, again, just like the previous project, we have essential ground floor building uses, you know, to operate the building. And as Scott mentioned of residential communities above, the size of them. They are also sized appropriately with the ra. Ratio. The two wings of the building sort of really is ideally sort of scaled. And so that is another reason we are requesting that waiver. As Scott Minuted, you know, University of Tampa provides the green space to benefit of the City Of Tampa and have. And green spaces at the University. I think some of the feedback that we heard is for type one trees. Currently in our PD plan, a combination of type one and type two trees. We really considered and gone and thought about type one trees. We are proposing a ten-foot-long, 6 x 15 planting buffer. Extend that to 6 x 16. And provide more type one trees and looking at specialty cultivars that are more upright in nature. Obviously, thinking of how the trees will thrive. Providing structural soil along the streetscape to allow the root zone to really build to be healthy. And type one along each streetscape of west cleveland and south fielding. We are not showing IT in our PD but will identify IT between first and second reading, and one of the other things that I neglected to mention. Our current PD plan that we have a zero setback On South Boulevard. And sits back an additional 18 feet at the entry and another nine feet along the dining -- grab and go dining that I mentioned along the northern side Of South Boulevard. And that concludes our presentation. Thank you for your time.

07:41:32PM Anything else from the applicant? Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

07:41:35PM Tyler, did you -- Mr. Hudson, I remember that case very well from a few years ago. Could you just tell -- you showed the renderings a minute ago. Could you remind everybody what was built if you did the old project? What is approved right now? They had a really significant parking waiver there. IT was really -- that developer. Scott was not fond of that development. Unity is a great thing. The City Code is requiring more parking spaces if you get to an incremental point with bedrooms. Significant parking waiver.

07:42:24PM Tell US the difference. When you consider that --

07:42:33PM How many units? How many parking spaces were not covered there?

07:42:44PM How many are you asking? A greater degree, but again, the whole point and the dissent with the University was, there was no control. Could have been a bunch of random people living there, and had nothing to do with the University. Since the University owns this, when Scott says IT going to be freshmen, he can make sure that IT is freshmen.

07:43:08PM I remember -- Scott May come and say IT. But Dr. Vaughn came in and spoke as well. Not connected to the school. When you look at the style. Juniors And Seniors that park in those projects. And park between 77% and 85% statistically on campus. So the previous project had 19 stall parking garage. Few surface and was about 200. Juniors And Seniors on there. We were concerned they would park on campus.

07:43:52PM Any new parking on campus compared to that application? Grant Center when we just opened that. That is why we have a surplus of parking. On our master plan, we have another garage. If we are butting up against those boundaries, we will build another deck to handle future parking issues.

Lynn Hurtak

07:44:16PM I have a question.

Alan Clendenin

07:44:26PM CCTV, put this up.

Lynn Hurtak

07:44:31PM Is this apartment style or more dorm style? So IT is the same -- the same style of housing in the Grant Center. Jack And Jill bathroom with two two-bed units.

07:44:46PM No kitchens.

07:44:50PM That is the important thing for me is this is truly a dorm. My secondary question goes to the fact that there are 800 beds, and you had to know this was coming, 54 bike parking spaces protected. And that is just -- that is not going to be enough, I dont believe, for the amount of Students. Even if you only have an 1/8 or 1/10. Bike parking -- I know you talked of adding a bike park Along South Boulevard. Bikes average $2,000 to $3,000 for low-end bikes. Students with good bikes are not going to want to park those on the streets. I was hoping there will be more interior bike parking for Residents. Actively working on that. Obviously, when you submit a PD, you have to put something that you guarantee you are going to hit, if that makes sense.

07:45:47PM Sure. Manipulating things like generator size and these things. We are aware that We want to get more parking spaces. All of the bike spaces are protected, indoor and covered. Low-hanging fruit to add some others. I think You are aware of this, but We recently became a bike-certified campus. We have a Bike Share Program where We have another protected bike shelter. You go in the fitness center, all the Students will have access to the free bikes with their student ID card. I am with You. I want to get more bike parking space on this lot. We want a number We knew We can beat and additional resources to the Students. I am with You. We want to promote more multimodal.

07:46:43PM Okay, I appreciate that. That is just one thing I would love to see. Otherwise, I appreciate the thoughtful detail that went into this. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

07:46:53PM Council Member Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

07:46:55PM Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Along the same lines, different from the last time we were 07:47:01pm here on the property, and I remember President Vaughn here. You have excessive parking area. I see more kids walk up and down. They walk everywhere. Kennedy Boulevard at 2:00 in the afternoon or 6:00 in evening and 11:00. You see kids walking everywhere and enjoying Tampa. And I believe -- there is no statistics on this. But I want to making IT permanent home. Was like that 50 years ago, absolutely not. When saw the name Thomas on the garage. I believe that gentleman played football. A fantastic player. I dont know if he played defense or offense. Defensive back or wideout. But he played fantastic with Metusak, and all those guys and Jackson. They were fantastic. Nothing to do with this zoning. But that University has become an economic engine for the City Of Tampa whether this passes or not. IT is what IT is. And the past president and president has done an outstanding job that IT has done what IT was supposed to do. We have very little problems with the University, I am glad to see that, if any at all. Before I vote, yeah, he went there, Bill Pope said its too smart to be stupid, and I think stupid, better and smarter. Go back last two years and I have been a donor every year. I will say that before I vote so nobody says Miranda is doing something and taking Advantage One Way or the other and that is todays politics. Wasnt like that 50 years ago.

Alan Clendenin

07:48:47PM Did you breathe during that entire discussion?

Charlie Miranda

07:48:51PM Pardon me? Miranda marathon I dont have to breathe, I have four lungs.

Alan Clendenin

07:48:56PM I was going to request that you have a disclosure on your Alma Mater with that glowing review. Scott, I concur with Councilwoman Hurtak and not as fanatical about the bicycles. I was a campus guy a 1,000 years ago with a bicycle. You need more bicycles and caught my Idea Of Boulevard. Dont have a lot of room. I dont want to see bicycles on the sidewalks. To put IT. Where the building sets back north of entrance. We were looking at the furniture zone. Creating a defined furniture zone where we have our light pole. The space in between the tree wells. We were kind of thinking for short-term park where that would be. I am going home. I need to run up or spend some time or visit a friend. That is really what they were intended for. May be some other opportunity.

07:50:01PM All too often with these rental bikes, I see them, and they are laying on sidewalks. I appreciate that.

07:50:13PM Any other option not directly on the sidewalk should be pursued. Interesting looking at the site plan. I missed that law firm. I cant figure why you had that building set Back The Way from cleveland. Why didnt you think IT forward To The Street. Get IT. You have a building there. I dont know how that was mixed on the -- copies that I saw that there was a building construction. Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

07:50:39PM Yeah, just to add. When speaking at the University of Tampa, especially because of this case -- the other case, I will ask the students how many of you ride your bicycle to campus? How many Of You Drive? And how many walk? Almost 100% driving. I dont know that I -- I rarely see bicycles on campus. And I know IT is an aspiration, but everybody is driving. And one of the questions is, if -- if we have a shortage of parking spaces, how many spaces are the bicycle racks taking up. But, you know, just because we aspire to do something doesnt mean people will do IT. I have a concern about if students are -- granted, I dont speak to freshman classes and the older ones. I went to the University of Tampa too. Except for the foreign students, I think almost all of them had cars. May Not Drive IT on campus, but if they -- if they have a car they have to go to grocery store with or whatever -- to get to their job, and where are they going to park that? So if you look across our campus, kind of similar to the comment of parking and green space. We have consolidated bike storage areas. Rick Thomas garage, you know, when you go underneath the ramp, underneath the huge bike storage area. Absolutely massive. If you havent seen IT, from front door of campus safety. Of our students keep their bikes there. New storage in Grant Center, we keep IT there. Very unsuccessful bike parking to go back to your comment. We built the Delaware parking garage on west side of campus the garage behind the la crosse stadium the One That Dr. Vaughn and I built, what, SIX years ago. We put a beautiful bike parking area in there. Cameras, the vertical racks, horizontal. IT was beautiful. Never used. We built capacity for 200 spaces for bikes and any given day SIX or seven bikes in there. What we have been learning unless IT is really, really conveniently located, they wont use IT. So one of the things we have been trying to focus is -- out in just a matter of checking a box and providing bike parking providing IT in right locations. We look at this building, provide enough biking for the students that live there. IT really needs to be more central because kids like to put their bikes and leave IT and riding on the next riverwalk and going downtown and doing that fun stuff on weekends.

07:53:27PM One of the things about the University of Tampa, IT brings in a bunch of rich kids. Not all of them was rich. I wasnt rich, and I dont know if Charlie was. A lot of nice cars. If they are a freshman and have a car in high school and where are they supposed to park IT? Goes back to our -- that you are not allowed to bring a car to campus if you are a freshman.

07:53:56PM Thinking ahead, what the neighborhood is concerned, They will bring their car and park IT in the neighborhood. You wouldnt see IT.

07:54:08PM Can You kick them out the school if they bring a car and they hide IT? Parking passes on IT, what we try to do from an enforcement perspective, we scale IT up. You get a warning. Then booted. A boot is You have to go in there and Campus Safety reads You the riot act, if You will.

07:54:29PM Possible that 200 Freshmen can hide their cars by parking IT in the neighborhood? I dont think so, no.

Alan Clendenin

07:54:38PM Hearing no other questions. You are done with the presentation. One last question, type 1 trees that You have that You said You are adding those between first and second reading? Made earlier of the bike parking. I dont like to be the boy that cried wolf. We are in a rush. If Student Housing is constructed a day late, that is a year late. So We filed what We need We can do. Type one and type twos. Dug deeper. I have been here before and am aware of preference of type one tree between first and second reading and the change that the site data table setbacks conform what We are showing in the landscape plan so numbers, words and pictures all tie together to get that permit We need so badly.

07:55:32PM Trust but verify.

Charlie Miranda

07:55:38PM If I May, I know this University paid $75,000 to remove a grand tree 25 years ago. I remember when you brought up the tree. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for bringing IT up.

Alan Clendenin

07:55:49PM Anybody in public wish to speak to this item? Come on up. Start with your name, please. Kramer, 203 Tampa -- number 203, Tampa 33602. Im here on behalf of scg Tampa Heights, the only adjacent property owner. They own both the vacant lot that is zoned PD as well the multifamily building directly to the north of this project. We are here because we are trying to work something out with ut. We want council to be aware of some issues wither trying to figure out in this process. For example, ut. Wants to remove one of our trees, which is a 27-inch southern live oak. IT happens to be protected, and our residents love IT. I have a photo here for you. And the back corner.

07:56:59PM IT will come up. We are trying to figure out if that is possible. We are also working on a redevelopment plan that is acceptable for both parties for the entire block, just given the amount of parcels that Scg owns. Unfortunately, discussions are feeling a little bit rushed, because I understand that this hearing was moved up from an original April 9 date. So we are working as fast as we can. There have been a propose aid agreement between the parties, and we are in active conversations about this. But we have concerns, and we just hope we can work through those. So I wanted to come here and give Council some background. Thank you.

07:57:47PM Thank you. Anybody else in public wishes to speak to this item? Would Applicant like a rebuttal? This an important project, a good project. IT merits your support and hope you will approve IT. As for neighbors, Lawyers are just lawyering about lawyer stuff. We will figure IT out. Thanks. Have a good night.

Guido Maniscalco

07:58:14PM Lawyers are lawyering.

Luis Viera

07:58:22PM Motion to close.

Guido Maniscalco

07:58:23PM Second.

Alan Clendenin

07:58:25PM We have a Staff Person approaching the podium.

Chris Demanche

07:58:28PM Thank you for the record, Chris Demanche, Development Coordination. Before we move any further, I want to kind of run through the items we are looking to have revised between first and second reading and see if the applicant is in -- concurs with that.

Alan Clendenin

07:58:43PM Perfect.

Chris Demanche

07:58:45PM Number one, add bike Parking Along Boulevard. The planting buffer extended to provide type one Trees Along Boulevard. We are looking to correct the Setback Along Boulevard to be a two-foot setback as a building Setback Along Boulevard. And amends the parking waiver so We are removing -- removing one space. They will be providing 40 surface parking space on site. And then They are looking to provide a revised landscape plan.

Alan Clendenin

07:59:17PM The setbacks were variable depending on where In The Boulevard. IT might vary more. Doing that without getting in trouble. Going back To The Street that gets US --

07:59:37PM Just restricting the expanded bike parking?

Chris Demanche

07:59:41PM If Council is okay with that, I think We 07:59:44pm would like to depict bike parking where possible on the streets that encircle -- IT is not going to be everywhere, but depict exterior bike parking that We can depict where We can do IT. I know We can do Some On Boulevard. I dont want to be overly prescriptive. This goes to PD and permitting.

Alan Clendenin

08:00:06PM Tickled my attention. What we can depict.

08:00:18PM Sounds good to me. Alan Clendenin: we have a motion to close from council member Viera. Seconded from council member Maniscalco. All in favor, say aye. Opposed. Ayes have IT. Where did we leave IT. Are you up to read this? I cant remember -- Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

08:00:38PM Move file number rez 26-32, ordinance presented first reading, rezoning property in 110 South Boulevard in City of Tampa, Florida, more particularly described section 1 from zoning classification PD planned development to PD planned development multifamily commercial, providing an effective date.

Guido Maniscalco

08:01:01PM Second.

Alan Clendenin

08:01:04PM Motion and a second. Roll call.

Naya Young

08:01:08PM Yes.

Luis Viera

08:01:09PM Yes.

Bill Carlson

08:01:10PM Yes.

Charlie Miranda

08:01:11PM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

08:01:12PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

08:01:13PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

08:01:15PM Yes.

Clerk

08:01:16PM Motion carried unanimously. Second reading and adoption will be held on April 2, 2026 at 10 am. At old city hall, located at 315 e. Kennedy, third floor, Tampa, Florida 33602.

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Alan Clendenin

08:01:37PM Hoping by 7:30. So that -- that concludes our business for the regular business -- thank you, Scott. Good to see you, man. That concludes our regular scheduled business. New Business, Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

08:01:50PM I just want -- I just want to bring up because we cant talk about this outside of this meeting, but I listened to the -- I listen to the Charter Review Commission meeting the other day. Did any of you all listen to IT?

Alan Clendenin

08:02:05PM I did.

Bill Carlson

08:02:06PM You May have some comments about IT. But somebody needs to talk to the Facilitator. As I understand IT, The Way IT works is the Chair calls the meeting to order, and the Facilitator takes over. In the meeting, one person spent half the time talking. And there should -- and in City Council meetings, roberts rules, you create a process where everybody has a chance to talk, and you cut people off with a timer after certain amounts. I dont want to be prescriptive to them because they should be allowed to do what they want, but I imagine that folks who want to speak feel like they are not able to because -- because there is no control over letting people talk. And so one would be -- ideally, the Chair would run IT and the Facilitator would give advice. And let them run IT themselves with the -- with the Facilitator giving input. But if the Facilitator is going to run IT, I think there should be a rule -- again, not for US to be prescriptive but for them to create their own rule two or three minutes like we do and two bites at the apple. Other thing is, I think we asked them not to go line by line. And they are going very slowly line by line and skipping through the questions. So The Way they did IT. They say, well, City Council says that they want to know whether the City Attorney should follow bar rules or know if the City Attorney should -- if the City Council should have more control of the City Attorney and turn around and say what IT means. I dont know either what IT means. Skip to the next thing. Facilitator instead of providing information to them, is pushing them to next item, and I strongly object to that. We -- we sat in an hour and a half to two-hour meeting to discuss each of these and put IT on. Half of our appointees have listened to that video about instructions and insights into what City Council thinks. If they vote as a group, if a consensus that they dont agree with our question, that is fine. But for the Facilitator to push them through for time sake and going back line to line, I strongly object to that. And in all this discussion, what does council mean? The -- other thing is, they -- they requested. At least they talked of having the Chair come answer questions. I think they can watch the video. The Chair wants to speak, that is fine, but they should watch the video of all of our discussion on these items. And we should just encourage them to do that. Other thing is that -- the new City Attorney spoke. And he asked -- answered questions and talked to them. He is representing the City Attorney's office in a time of calm, not what we went through SIX, seven, eight years ago. And there is -- if you are just going base on our experience with Scott Steady so far, you would not put any additional restrictions. If go back to time when -- when the -- -- more than one City Attorney was adverse to City Council, there definitely should be more restrictions. I think the most egregious of them when we discovered on our own that the City Attorney's office wrote a two-paragraph memo that they didnt have to have City Council's agreement on settlements agreement and approved hundreds of them without our approval. With the charter, an ordinance on book. City Attorney from 2018 said my memo supercedes all ordinances. Illegal and doesnt follow the charter and proceeded with that simple years until we discovered that by accident. Multiple cases that we need to go through and fix. Anyway, I will talk to my appointee more, but I think somehow we need to recommend to them that -- that the -- that we give more time for people to talk about our questions. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

08:06:13PM Thank you. I concur with most your observations. Council member Viera.

Luis Viera

08:06:18PM Council Member Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

08:06:21PM We look the same.

Alan Clendenin

08:06:25PM I am going down New Business.

Luis Viera

08:06:27PM Yes, sir. I got a request -- there is an organization -- I am going to sends a memo out on IT. They are having an alliance for global security funded by Hillsborough County for security related Conference Taking Place at the University of South Florida in early April of 2026 dealing with potential homeland security threats to the City Of Tampa. To be clear, these are threats because -- in todays political culture, I want to make sure I specify what that means. From foreign states. I am not talking of immigration issues, ice.

Alan Clendenin

08:07:04PM Or Attorney Generals.

Luis Viera

08:07:06PM Right, dont get me started. Hillsborough County voted unanimously, the county commissioners, to fund this USF forum in early April with $25,000. I am not asking for money, By The Way. As well as to do a resolution. I am motioning to bring back to City Council a resolution which will identity and mirror what Hillsborough County commission did for support of the Alliance For Global Securities Forum that will be held at the University of South Florida in April 2026 on homeland, as IT pertains to cyber and other domestic threats. Motion by the Hillsborough County commission. I ask IT to come back March 26, 2026. That is my motion.

Guido Maniscalco

08:07:58PM Second.

Lynn Hurtak

08:07:59PM I have a question.

Alan Clendenin

08:08:00PM A motion and a second from council member Maniscalco. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

08:08:04PM I am not understanding what exactly this is.

Luis Viera

08:08:08PM IT is a forum dealing with potential homeland security threats here in the City Of Tampa, Hillsborough County.

Lynn Hurtak

08:08:15PM Like what?

Luis Viera

08:08:17PM Could be Cybersecurity, Terrorist Actions, any -- I think IT speaks for itself.

Lynn Hurtak

08:08:25PM I guess -- I am trying to understand. This is a resolution to just say --

Luis Viera

08:08:33PM Yes, maam, that we support -- that we support the efforts that are being done at this forum in order to discuss -- so how about this, Councilwoman Hurtak. I am -- the resolution -- this is merely to put IT on the bach kept. Not to support the resolution. So, again, merely to put a placeholder on March 26. So you can take a look at the resolution. We will pass IT out to you. But, again, IT just deals with potential terror, cyber and other security threats to Tampa.

Lynn Hurtak

08:09:03PM If You can pass out the countys one, I would just be interested.

Luis Viera

08:09:07PM Absolutely.

Lynn Hurtak

08:09:09PM I am still trying to figure out what IT is.

Alan Clendenin

08:09:12PM March 26 is a really full agenda, By The Way.

Martin Shelby

08:09:17PM Sorry, Martin Shelby, not to involve myself, but just for the news -- just for purposes of what is being discussed. That will be presented beforehand, and your office can forward to the council members what the County did. Thing would just be something that will not take much time.

Alan Clendenin

08:09:38PM This will be ideally put on the consent agenda.

Martin Shelby

08:09:41PM Could very well be.

Luis Viera

08:09:44PM Tell you what, as a stipulation, if any Council Member -- again, I dont think anything will happen here. If any Council Member has a challenge and put IT on March 26. If more than two minutes of time taken, we can bump IT to April 2.

Alan Clendenin

08:10:00PM Plan IT on the Tampa. And plan on a breezeway and be done.

Luis Viera

08:10:06PM My motion.

Alan Clendenin

08:10:07PM Motion from Viera. Seconded from council member Maniscalco. Hearing none. All in favor, say aye. Opposed. Ayes have IT. Councilwoman Young.

Naya Young

08:10:17PM All righty. So I already talked about this earlier. But just to reiterate that we are -- our office is continuing to work with our legal team recording community concerns on local stores throughout the district. Our legal team. We spoke with the legal team and reviewing additional documentation and will be visiting some of those stores. We just want -- I said IT earlier, but just putting out there again for anyone who missed IT the first time. And then, you know -- so a couple of things. I had an opportunity to attend a couple of events throughout district. We went to the event for Ramadan by the City Of Tampa. Food was fantastic. Really nice to see everybody coming together and community. Also attended the -- the national bbcb, believe, build, complete, known as Black college bound summit that was held in Tampa. Summit had great speakers including my younger brother, Owen Young, who introduced the main speaker, who was actor Blair Underwood, who gave a wonderful keynote speech. That summit Provides An Avenue for students in higher education to network with accomplished professionals. IT was very nice and honored my predecessor councilwoman Gwen Henderson. IT was very nice. Sneaker ball. Those who participate in The Skills Center. And the president say that the family fund made a commitment with The Skills Center with a $100,000 in the memorial of the late Mr. Stanley Gray. And we had a student at our table who was recognized as well and that was very nice. Went to the spring market held in Ybor City of the 1920 venue. Quarterly market that has local minority businesses. They had yoga on the rooftop. Artists and even this time around, they had high school students that were volunteering with the market. Very well attended and they had a karaoke, a local artist that -- that did some of their own music. And spent time with Howard University. As you know, im a Howard University alumni, also my parents. And spent time with the Howard University bison swim team competing for nationals. So the Florida Aquarium host them. An awesome visit and students that participated. And would go in the water with the fish and the -- and the them and got to see IT and really nice. Also, went to some schools throughout the district to teach water safety classes. We went to a book signing. Peace Progressive Community Church with Pastor Timothy Kemp and has members of Thompson Vocational that is known as howard Blake High School, which I did not know. Has a lot of pictures in the book that happens to be actually from her family photo album. A very nice book signing. Also, stopped by East Tampa constituents home who was having an issue with her alley and parking. She actually called our office the other day and she was like, I am so surprised would you stop by my house to see what was going on with my alley. That was really nice. We went to family services formally known as the alpha house and say the services they provide. Nebraska Business Association had their meeting, and they are working on Revitalizing Nebraska Avenue. A fantastic group. For the robles park construction site. And East Ybor And Gandy Association meeting with I was fantastic. Also toured the Shana And Brian Glaser jjc, which was awesome. If you havent been there, IT was fantastic. Also today, there is a little market that happens in the breezeway there. And I went, and there was a Gentleman selling different types of brittle: peanut brittle, chocolate brittle, all kinds of brittle. Called psalms brittle. Got a variety pack. If anybody want to try some. You are more than welcome to try IT, and he is there once a month.

Guido Maniscalco

08:14:48PM Thought You were going to give up samples.

Naya Young

08:14:53PM I have Them. They are here. So that is all. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

08:14:57PM Council Member Maniscalco.

Guido Maniscalco

08:15:00PM I have a few motions. Second reading and adoption scheduled March 26, 2026 for file number2026-8-chapter 2 previously approved as a first reading configuration February 5, 2026 as a walk-on item. The public hearing was inadvertently omitted, and the City Clerk's Office have properly noticed for the March 26 date. This is the ordinance entitled "recommendation and reimbursement of liquidity officials" that include City Council members acting as CRA members.

Alan Clendenin

08:15:39PM A motion from Council Member Maniscalco. A seconded from Council Member Miranda. All in favor, say aye. Opposed.

Guido Maniscalco

08:15:45PM Second motion. A motion from Tampa International Airport to give a -- lets say ten minutes -- IT May be shorter update of the May 21 regular session meeting under presentations.

Charlie Miranda

08:15:56PM Second.

Alan Clendenin

08:15:59PM A motion from Council Member Maniscalco. A second from Council Member Miranda. All in favor, say aye. Opposed. Ayes have IT.

Guido Maniscalco

08:16:07PM Quick one, a motion remove the following motion from the April 2 council meeting. Motion was made by Councilwoman Hurtak on March 5, 2026 and heard today on the CRA agenda, item number 5 for that $10 million resolution. So since we moved IT. Move IT.

Martin Shelby

08:16:26PM If I can, I am sorry, is that a motion?

Lynn Hurtak

08:16:29PM Doesnt have to go to Regular Council to be approved?

Martin Shelby

08:16:34PM Im confused.

Guido Maniscalco

08:16:35PM We discussed item 65, because IT had -- IT was -- IT was a CRA connection.

Martin Shelby

08:16:44PM You make a motion today; is that correct?

Guido Maniscalco

08:16:49PM Yes.

Martin Shelby

08:16:50PM Asking what to be removed from when.

Guido Maniscalco

08:16:52PM Took IT off the regular agenda and put IT on the CRA. Removing IT from the past agenda.

Alan Clendenin

08:16:58PM I see you, Lynn, hold on. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

08:17:03PM Yes, We approved IT at the CRA, but We have to put our Council hats on and approve budget stuff as Council.

Guido Maniscalco

08:17:10PM I dont know, this was a request that came from the Clerk.

Lynn Hurtak

08:17:16PM Okay.

Alan Clendenin

08:17:16PM Remind me --

Clerk

08:17:19PM Suling said She can speak to IT.

Guido Maniscalco

08:17:23PM This came from Charlene.

Alan Clendenin

08:17:24PM Suling?

Martin Shelby

08:17:50PM While we are waiting, Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. I dont recall what that item 65 was.

Lynn Hurtak

08:17:55PM $10 million for -- to help with predevelopment costs.

Alan Clendenin

08:18:00PM All CRA money.

Lynn Hurtak

08:18:10PM Yes, but IT was still -- even with CRA money, we have to approve IT as Council Members.

Martin Shelby

08:18:17PM If I understand correctly and correct me, please, if I am wrong, this was an item that historically, item approved by CRA as an agency before IT comes to City Council for approval and something that had not been brought to the CRA previously? Is that my understanding? Or not the case? Basically, what happens once IT is taken up by the CRA, IT is set for City Council as a result.

Lynn Hurtak

08:18:47PM That is my understanding.

Alan Clendenin

08:18:50PM I am confused because CRA approves expenditure. Why IT is coming to the Council?

Martin Shelby

08:18:59PM A budgetary change.

Lynn Hurtak

08:19:02PM We do IT all the time in consent.

Martin Shelby

08:19:05PM I dont know if in Council or cras bylaws. I do recall a motion by City Council, either as CRA or City Council that -- that dates back to, I believe, when Council member Reddick was on chair, on Council. That protocol is expenditures shall be reviews as a CRA before they are brought to City Council for a budget amendment.

Guido Maniscalco

08:19:34PM Want to hold on this. If we dont have suling until March 26.

Clerk

08:19:40PM Tell them that the motion was to reschedule from April 2 to CRA this morning. She said they stated to be scheduled.

Lynn Hurtak

08:19:51PM Sounds like IT is done then.

Guido Maniscalco

08:19:54PM This is -- this is asked to remove IT from April 2 council meeting because the motion was made that this agenda item originally be continued on March 5 to April 2 already 2026 under staff reports and unfinished business.

Martin Shelby

08:20:13PM If I understand what you are saying -- again, Martin Shelby. If I understand what you are saying, yes, you made motion to have IT appear on the CRA, but still scheduled to appear on City Council and now you are asking -- clerk is asking IT to be removed from the April 2.

Clerk

08:20:27PM She said IT is on April 2.

Martin Shelby

08:20:31PM But IT wont be heard by CRA before then, will IT?

Lynn Hurtak

08:20:37PM We heard IT today.

Martin Shelby

08:20:38PM Oh, you heard IT today.

Guido Maniscalco

08:20:40PM Let me hold on to this motion because we have March 26, and if we can take something out. Can we take something out for April 2. I will hold off on this for further clarification. My last motion is request -- request that Planning Commission come to provide a 15-minute presentation on the newly adopted single-member district boundaries at councils regular meeting May 21, 2026 under presentations. We checked the calendar.

Alan Clendenin

08:21:14PM Okay. We have a motion from Council Member Maniscalco. Seconded from Council Member Miranda adding 5,000 people to Councilwoman Young's district. All in favor, say aye. Opposed. Ayes have IT.

Guido Maniscalco

08:21:27PM Thats IT. Thanks.

Alan Clendenin

08:21:29PM Council Member Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

08:21:32PM Thank you, Sir.

Alan Clendenin

08:21:34PM New Business?

Charlie Miranda

08:21:37PM I have 15 of them. Start with number one, the electric bikes that we have that are by contract. There is a clause, if I remember years back, that they are supposed to pick them up every night and send IT to wherever they are supposed to put IT at. And I had discussion with the City of that item and not the citys fault. They are lagging behind. These things getting picked up from the neighborhood. Every day on certain corners -- I can name them to you -- I will name you one or two, Armenia And Main Street, right there sitting in sidewalk. They do not pick them up and move them around. And one that I had there for many weeks, and I called the City, and they did an excellent job. Not their fault. Corner of 600 block of Louisiana And Macdill Avenue. I wasnt going to bring IT up, but that one was picked up after SIX weeks of being there, one you have those bikes. There was an Agreement Made Way back if they pick them up, they would get fined. If they continued doing that, they had a problem with City and Legal Department and the Contract The Way IT was written. If IT continues -- I dont want any action now, if IT continues, I will put the owner of the business that we will file whatever necessary -- to get them out of the contract because they are not picking up those bikes.

Alan Clendenin

08:23:00PM I agree.

Charlie Miranda

08:23:01PM A danger to society and everybody.

Alan Clendenin

08:23:03PM Anything else.

Charlie Miranda

08:23:06PM Thats IT, sir.

Alan Clendenin

08:23:08PM That wasnt 15.

Charlie Miranda

08:23:13PM I owe 14. If I appoint somebody, if they dont call me, dont go to any meet. The Chairman, if he had a problem, he should come to US and tell US. Only thing about IT. I am not against what he is saying, but I appoint somebody, they are on their own, baby.

Guido Maniscalco

08:23:32PM Thats right.

Bill Carlson

08:23:33PM My comments was about the Facilitator.

Alan Clendenin

08:23:38PM I will start with the easy things first. Actually, I need -- Councilwoman Hurtak, can you be chair?

Lynn Hurtak

08:23:48PM No, sorry.

Alan Clendenin

08:23:50PM Council Member Maniscalco. I would like to make a motion to recognize years of dedicated service on a date to be determined.

Charlie Miranda

08:24:01PM Second.

Guido Maniscalco

08:24:03PM All in favor, say aye.

Alan Clendenin

08:24:05PM Those who dont know, She is leaving US. She is going to retire. She is going to retire. Well-deserved retirement. Again, second retirement. So to address a couple of those things that were just said, I will have that discussion to make sure that IT is fair and balanced, to bring IT to the attention. Sometimes you have to bring -- fair and balanced discussion is important. On line by line, I concur. I will have that conversation with them as well. Two things for consensus. They invited me to come. I will accept that invitation. In light of that, I think IT is important -- maybe I am out there in left field, but I think for them as a discovery body, as -- you another, they are not all experts on City Council -- City Business, Council Business and how all these things work. So I think they are dependent on subject matter experts and I think the seven of US are -- well, some of US are more subject matter experts than others. I am looking at you, Charlie. But I think -- I think having US available for them to -- if they wanted to speak to any one of US about their experiences, they can ask US. Why do you feel this is important? What are your observations? I think IT is appropriate for them to ask US to come down. Not compel US to come down. But if they want to call council member Carlson and say what do you observe of relationship between City Attorney's Office and City Council and what solutions are you looking for, I think that is an around discussion to have. Because they are not subject matter experts. Can I share that council is okay with them asking people to come down and have those kind of conversations?

Charlie Miranda

08:25:56PM That is the facilitators job. Not mine to have a point of discussion.

Alan Clendenin

08:26:02PM Some feel IT is inappropriate for Them to ask US to come down.

Bill Carlson

08:26:13PM To charlies point, I am not voluntarily going down there. I agree, if they seek questions. My concerns are about the Facilitator.

Charlie Miranda

08:26:23PM One other thing. Tomorrow morning, I got to get up early. Got to speak.

Alan Clendenin

08:26:30PM Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

08:26:33PM My concern with that only is if They invite each one of US to talk about the same thing, They are just going to draw out the same topic. And They are not answering questions that we already have. So --

Alan Clendenin

08:26:48PM That is the facilitators job to keep that from happening.

Lynn Hurtak

08:26:52PM Agreed but -- Alan Clendenin: I dont think inappropriate for them to ask. Had.

08:26:59PM They can ask.

Alan Clendenin

08:27:00PM They feel like They need expert testimony from anybody, They can ask that question. I agree about the line-by-line thing.

Lynn Hurtak

08:27:09PM Ask for a specific topic. Not just, hey, come and tell US about everything.

Alan Clendenin

08:27:14PM Okay. Did we have a discussion about line by line? Was that part of our discussion?

Guido Maniscalco

08:27:19PM I dont think so.

Lynn Hurtak

08:27:20PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

08:27:21PM I mean, prior -- as far as direction.

Bill Carlson

08:27:27PM I dont know if We voted on IT or not, but We did say We didnt think they should go line by line because what Lynn and I had to go through last time, and there were things that had to happen last time. But a way of wasting a lot of time.

Alan Clendenin

08:27:41PM They can go line by line individually and highly as a whole.

Bill Carlson

08:27:47PM They can answer questions and go line by line.

Alan Clendenin

08:27:52PM Something This Council wants to bring up to them.

Guido Maniscalco

08:27:55PM Line by line?

Bill Carlson

08:27:57PM Skip questions and going line by line.

Alan Clendenin

08:28:00PM Any objection of Me bringing that issue up? I want to make sure that we have our conversation before. Because I dont want to speak on behalf of everybody.

Martin Shelby

08:28:09PM Mr. Chairman, Martin Shelby. When you say "bring IT up" with the facilitator or the board.

08:28:17PM With the board.

Alan Clendenin

08:28:18PM They asked Me to come down there. I will be standing there face to face with everybody.

Martin Shelby

08:28:24PM Thank you for that clarification.

Alan Clendenin

08:28:27PM The one other -- I will read this to you. Another proposal as far as submitting something to them as a solution to a problem. Executive order in conflict with ordinances and null and void. Thoughts?

Charlie Miranda

08:28:42PM What now?

Alan Clendenin

08:28:45PM An executive order in conflict with law and ordinance shall be and voided.

Lynn Hurtak

08:28:51PM Well, that is kind of common sense.

Martin Shelby

08:28:54PM I will tell You what You are saying -- I suspect -- let me just be clear. You are suggesting or reciting that You think ought to be in the Charter and an insertion in the Charter, a change within the Charter.

Alan Clendenin

08:29:12PM I am trying to see the --

Martin Shelby

08:29:19PM Sorry to interrupt, Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

08:29:23PM You can try IT. Again, I think that is self-evident, but I suppose You are correct, that maybe IT needs to be there.

Martin Shelby

08:29:31PM If I can.

Alan Clendenin

08:29:32PM Mr. Shelby.

Martin Shelby

08:29:34PM There is no -- in terms of legislative function, your legislative function is making a law passing ordinances. In terms of balance of power, the question is -- and what happened in the past can a -- what has supremacy? An Executive order or law and ordinance? That is not delineated in the charter. If there is a discrepancy between what City Council wants to do and what the Executive wants to do, can the Executive preempt City Council by writing an Executive order?

Alan Clendenin

08:30:26PM Not in the charter. Problem I see, IT is not highlighted.

Luis Viera

08:30:29PM May I speak briefly, if I May. Executive order on behalf of the Mayor will be null and voided presumptively, correct?

Alan Clendenin

08:30:40PM Correct.

Luis Viera

08:30:41PM Issue is, yes, IT would, but who would determine. That is the issue, his or her will make determination on IT. Often Black and White, and then there is gray. Probably gray areas. And if you want to state that as a matter of law to be put in the charter or incorporated, great. But that is going to be in the details, which you probably cant work out tonight, but a very good detail to bring up with them.

Alan Clendenin

08:31:07PM The question is, can I bring this up to the Charter Review Commission?

Guido Maniscalco

08:31:11PM Yes, go for IT.

Lynn Hurtak

08:31:12PM Sure.

Martin Shelby

08:31:17PM In consensus.

Bill Carlson

08:31:19PM All roads lead back to controls The City Attorney. And -- you know, in the example I gave, there is -- that is the most important issue. If we dont resolve that, the city cant function. We need to resolve IT.

Alan Clendenin

08:31:34PM I agree with that. Council member Viera and then Mr. Shelby.

Luis Viera

08:31:38PM Off the top of my head. I mean, if -- maybe you can have a provision in there saying that if such a conflict arises through an allegation made by a majority of council members, a procedure to determine through independent -- through independent legal analysis maybe by an attorney or law firm jointly retained by the Administration and City Council, prance a method by which someone can give a former legal opinion with the consent of council.

Alan Clendenin

08:32:08PM Mark that so we can capture the video to play what Council Viera just said. Mr. Shelby.

Martin Shelby

08:32:16PM I think if you go back to what Council Member -- let me rephrase IT. Submit by Council Member Carlson an adopted the questions to be presented were adopt by this entire board to be submitted. A lot of those questions go to remedy that are absent in the current chart, and this Council has been confronting and -- and I think those questions address that issue. And certainly something that they May want to raise.

Alan Clendenin

08:32:51PM I think that is what seems to be getting lost in transition between our discussion and maybe discussion happening in the Crc. That is why IT is important for Subject Matter Experts to ask for people to come down because there is a lot of context. And especially -- I dont personally have, because I wasnt -- I wasnt involved in certain things that happened. So that is why IT is important for them to talk to folks who have that context of that experience. And not necessarily to highlight individual things or specific things that happened, but what -- what the construct of IT that creates the conflict.

Bill Carlson

08:33:29PM Other thing and I mentioned this before. And sorry, a marriage or prenuptial agreement or contract with a Company. Every attorney will say we are not worried of you guys getting along, we are worried of how you exit. You have to anticipate how you will with conflict. We are not trying to create conflict but trying to avoid conflict by anticipating IT. If Scott Steady is the best-case scenario, you havent a prenuptial agreement or corporate agreement on best-case scenario.

Alan Clendenin

08:34:09PM Scott Steady, if you didnt listen to IT, thought he did a good job of a good balanced approach of the City Attorney's position and even though Martin Shelby, our council attorney wasnt there, he did a good job of presenting for both sides kind of a fair and balanced and quite honestly the questions that shouldnt be answered he didnt answer.

Bill Carlson

08:34:32PM I thought He did a great job too.

Guido Maniscalco

08:34:35PM You have the consensus.

Alan Clendenin

08:34:39PM Without objection, one last thing. You left me with the thing of rewriting the ordinance. After much lost sleep and discussion and some discussion with Mr. Shelby, I have kind of drew to the conclusion at this point, in attempting to do that would almost -- I would create a charter crisis with rewriting the Charter Review Commission. And I didnt want to derail this any further than IT was. And I thought lets ride the horse we are on to conclusion, and maybe fix this some time next time around that -- that we will just ride the horse we are on. Because IT can just derail whole process if we tried to do something rights now. And, again, a lot of loss sleep and deliberation. Mr. Shelby.

Martin Shelby

08:35:27PM Mr. Chairman, you are referring to the ordinance that created the Charter Review Board.

Alan Clendenin

08:35:32PM Because of the conflict that happened. I said give me an opportunity to take another bite of that apple and rewrite. Realizing the unintended consequences of doing that could cause havoc, and I could He is not to go down that.

Bill Carlson

08:35:56PM We hoped that The Mayor would not submit mandates. She submitted recommendations. Should be recommendations to Them. If they decide we will overrule that and go line by line, IT is up to Them.

Alan Clendenin

08:36:07PM Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

08:36:11PM No, I am good.

Guido Maniscalco

08:36:13PM Move to receive and file.

Alan Clendenin

08:36:14PM Motion to receive and file. Seconded by council member Viera. We are adjourned. Happy spring break. Disclaimer: this file represents an unedited version of realtime captioning which should neither be relied upon for complete accuracy nor used as a verbatim transcript. Any person who needs a verbatim transcript of the proceedings May need to hire a court reporter. © - City Of Tampa (813) 274-8211