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MINUTES OF THE WORKSHOP SESSION OF THE CITY COMMISSION HELD
ON DECEMBER 1, 1987
Mayor Ison called the meeting to order at 7 p.m.
PRESENT: Mayor Ison; Commissioners Johnson, Dabbs, Bateman,
and Hager; City Manager Ryan (arrived late); City Attorney
Barnby; City Clerk Catron; and City Planner Wagner.
ABSENT: None
City Planner Wagner gave an overview of a November 23 letter
from Jon Sundheim, Division President of U.S. Home
Corporation and presented a copy of it to each of the Mayor
and Commissioners. Mr. Wagner said he had a meeting with
City Manager Ryan, and Jon Sundheim and Jim Mehta of u.s.
Home earlier in the day to discuss the items in the letter.
Mr. Wagner asked the Commission to discuss the items and
provide some direction for the developer.
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Mr. Mehta said U.S. Home was concerned and wanted to make
sure that they received credit on the water line extension
sometime in the future when future developers began
benefiting from it. The City Commission agreed that U.S.
Home would be responsible up front for the water line
extension but that the company would receive paybacks from
future developers who benefited from the extension. A City
imposed cost sharing agreement would be established.
Mayor Ison asked about the utility easement. City Planner
Wagner said the City was still working on an arrangement with
Mr. Varnes but that if necessary, they could use a public
road such as Ocoee Hills Road.
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City Planner Wagner said he had received some differing
opinions on the buffering issue. Commissioner Johnson said
he did not want walls and preferred landscaping with trees.
Commissioner Dabbs also did not want walls and was mostly
concerned that the buffering be all the same along the road,
not walls and fences combined. Commissioner Bateman also
agreed that the buffer be uniform. City Planner Wagner said
that long term care of the buffer also must be stressed.
Commissioner Bateman said that there were some beautiful
walls along Silver Star Road and that some forms of walls do
not require a lot of upkeep and do not require frequent
painting. Commissioner Bateman said he preferred a wall
since it would keep people who owned homes along the road
from accessing the main road from the rear of their lots.
Rick Merkel of PEC said that homeowners could not access that
part of the land since it was City owned right-of-way.
Commissioner Bateman and Commissioner Hager said that people
do it all the time and that it was not easy to enforce that
kind of thing.
Mayor
Ison asked for a straw vote on the buffering.
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Workshop Session Commission Meeting
December 1, 1987
Commissioner Johnson said landscaping, Commissioner Dabbs
said landscaping, Commissioner Bateman said walls and
Commissioner Hager said walls. Mayor Ison stated since it
was deadlocked, his vote would be for walls. Mayor Ison said
the issue of what kind of walls would be resolved at a later
date.
City Planner Wagner said the issue of intersection
improvements had been resolved. He said the developer would
be reimbursed for three-quarters of the intersection
improvements by the surrounding developers as they develop
their land. Mr. Mehta asked if this was consistent with
other intersection improvement issues in the past. He said
they would prefer that the City pay for the remainder of the
improvements and that the City later be paid back by future
developers. Mayor Ison said that was not the City's way of
doing things and that the City would continue to require
developers to pay the costs to be later reimbursed. Rick
Merkel said the cost improvements shared by the other
developers would only be for what was in excess of the
requirements for U.S. Home.
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ADJOURNMENT:
7:35 p.m.
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MAYOR
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
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