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Walton County Commission Meeting Agenda 8/24/10

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Kurt

Kurt

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The Walton County Board of Commissioners will hold their regularly scheduled meeting on Tuesday, August 24, 2010 beginning at 4:00 PM at the Walton County Courthouse located at 571 US Highway 90, DeFuniak Springs, FL. I have provided some information on items of particular relevance south of the Bay.


Anita Page
SWCC Executive Director




AGENDA
Times are approximate and may not be strictly adhered to.

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4:00 PM Call to Order
Invocation
Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag
Approval of Agenda addition or deletion of items
Approval of Consent Agenda
1. Approve Expenditure Approval List (EAL)
2. Approve Minutes of July 20, 2010 Special Meeting and August 10, 2010
Regular Meeting
3. Approve to surplus various items from the Landfill Department
4. Approve to surplus one copier from the Legal Department
5. Approve to surplus a storage building from the Public Works Department
6. Approve to surplus one computer from the Purchasing Department
7. Approve to surplus two servers and one telephone system from the South Walton Annex
8. Approve a Resolution to amend the budget to recognize insurance reimbursements in the Sheriffs fund in the amount of $39,871
9. Approve a Resolution to amend the budget to account for fire truck lease loan proceeds in the amount of $194,239
10. Approve a Resolution to amend the budget for the award of grant funds from the Department of Transportation for the CR 280 Small County Outreach Project in the amount of $2,125,728
11. Approve the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance Contract Report as submitted by the Clerks Office. This item presents a limited internal audit of the CBA's performance of its contract with the county relating to the coastal dune lakes and Bay watershed activities.
12. Approve the Quarterly Report from the Life Enrichment Senior Center


4:05 PM Lyle Seigler, County Administrator
1. Citizens Services
a. Approve the HUD Section 8 Five Year Plan
2. Fire Rescue
a. RFP 010-013 Red Bay Fire Building Construction
3. Public Works
a. Beach Community Bank Letter of Credit for Sundance Subdivision
b. Engineering Services Proposal for Padgett Park Land Management Plan
c. Four Mile Creek Bridge Replacement
d. Mossy Head Industrial Park Wastewater Treatment Plant Update
4. Planning and Development Services
a. Mike Judkins Land Use changes. This item is a request by a resident for the county commissioners to "listen and understand" the mistakes the county is making in the Coastal Center land use "that has already cost the county over a million dollars and where this would save them millions in the future."
5. Administration
a. Charles Israel, owner of Lot 3, Block L in Seahighlands, requests approval of placement of a beach walkover. This item pertains to a requested dune walkover for a Gulf front home which impacts public beach property in the Seagrove Beach area.
b. Request from the City of Freeport regarding an outstanding loan


4:15 PM Dawn Moliterno, Tourist Development Council
1. Grant permission to hang 12 commissioned art canvases in the hallway of the South Walton Annex


4:20 PM Lynn Hoshihara, Interim County Attorney
1. Suspension of RFP 010-017 for Solid Waste Services


4:25 PM Public Hearings
1. Approve a Resolution to amend the budget to move $56,379 from the General Fund Reserves (for compensated absences) to the Sheriffs Fund
2. Approve the Annual Rate Resolution for Daughette Canal Capital Improvements and Maintenance Services MSBU
3. Approve the Annual Rate Resolution for Imperial Lakes MSBU
4. Approve the Annual Rate Resolution for Fire Rescue Assessments MSBU


4:30 PM District Five Commissioner Cecilia Jones,
4:35 PM District Four Commissioner Sara Comander,
4:40 PM District Two Commissioner Kenneth Pridgen
4:45 PM District Three Commissioner Larry D. Jones,
4:50 PM District One Chairman Scott Brannon


4:55 PM Public Comments


5:00 PM Gerry Demers, Planning and Development Services

LEGISLATIVE ITEMS:
A. Walton County Future Land Use Map (Proposed)


B. County Sponsored Large Scale Map Amendments


To see the proposed Map amendments , click go to the county website at: www.co.walton.fl.us Type in "map amendments" in the search box to the left. Scroll down and select "Maps" dated 8.12.10.
Under Part IV of the Proposed Map Series are the County Sponsored Amendments map and table, and the Proposed Future Land Use Map and Map.

You are looking for these sections:




  • Large Scale Future Land Use Map Amendments


The "Table for County Sponsored Future Land Use Map Amendments" lists all the county sponsored amendments. It is helpful if you get the map number off a sign or off the letter so you can go directly to that map number to see what is being proposed which is of interest to you. The "Proposed Future Land Use-Map Book" links shows all of the proposed map changes.
 
There must be some controversial issues being proposed because the meeting notification signs are EVERYWHERE.

What's going on? Can anyone give me a synopsis?
 
You may have noticed a lot of signs going up on property advertising a Map Amendment. Here is what is happening. As you know, the county is currently in the process of amending its Comprehensive Plan. (CP) The CP is the ruling policy document for the county and establishes the regulations for various property classifications. Unlike most communities, Walton County does not have zoning. Hopefully that will be changed in the future as zoning provides much more clarity for existing property owners and those seeking to purchase property for a particular purpose. For example, if someone wants to start a business, the zoning map clearly identifies property which is zoned for each type of commercial.

Walton County has broad land use categories instead of specific zoning for each parcel. The broad land uses allow a number of different uses within a land use category. For example, in Coastal Center, residential, commercial, public and civic uses can be in one land use category. Walton County depends on compatibility concepts and buffering to separate otherwise incompatible uses within the same category. In connection with the CP amendment process, the county must revise the land use map. That map shows all the different land use categories. The Map Amendments which are being advertised on the signs pertain to a request to change a land use category. People who own property within 300 feet of a proposed land use change should have received letters regarding the proposal. As an example of a proposed change, on CR 30A, for example, there are signs where an owner of property or the county wants to change a residential land use to a neighborhood commercial category.

The county is sponsoring Map Amendment changes where they feel like the property has an existing incorrect land use designation or where they feel future planing requires property be placed in another category.

To see the proposed Map amendments , click on the link below:

http://www.co.walton.fl.us/index.aspx?nid=534

Under Part IV of the Proposed Map Series are the County Sponsored Amendments map and table, and the Proposed Future Land Use Map and Map.

You are looking for these sections:

* Part IV of Map Series
* County Sponsored Future Land Use Map Amendments
* Table for County Sponsored Future Land Use Map Amendments
* Proposed Future Land Use
* Proposed Future Land Use - Map Book

* Large Scale Future Land Use Map Amendments


The "Table for County Sponsored Future Land Use Map Amendments" lists all the county sponsored amendments. It is helpful if you get the map number off a sign or off the letter so you can go directly to that map number to see what is being proposed which is of interest to you. The "Proposed Future Land Use-Map Book" links shows all of the proposed map changes.

The County sponsored map changes will go to a public hearing before the Planning Commission on August 17, 2010. That meeting is at the courthouse in South Walton and it starts at 5 PM.

NOTE: A listing of the proposed land use changes being sponsored by individual property owners is not currently available. I have been assured by the county that it will be available soon as those proposed map amendments go before the Planning Commission on August 23, 2010. Again, the meeting starts at 5 PM. I will send you the link to that information as soon as I get it from the county.

The county has requested that any questions or concerns be put in writing. The contacts for the county are:

Jennifer Christensen - chrjennifer@co.walton.fl.us
Gerry Demers - demgerry@co.walton.fl.us
Melissa Ward - warmelissa@co.walton.fl.us
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Anita Page
SWCC Executive Director
 
beachrunner, if you are looking to learn which parcels are being considered for changes in land-use, click here for the list. This is what the County Commissioners are hearing tomorrow evening.
 
Thanks for the info, y'all. We haven't received a certified letter, so that means we're not within 300 feet of a change. But we care about the entire 30A corridor because we want to become permanent residents. Thanks, Anita, Kurt, and koa. Time to do our homework. Unfortunately we can't be at the meeting tomorrow night.
 
Koa said:
beachrunner, if you are looking to learn which parcels are being considered for changes in land-use, click here for the list. This is what the County Commissioners are hearing tomorrow evening.
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Koa
Not to contradict you but tomorrow night is the County Comissioners meeting...they can't discuss the lots listed on your link yet because they haven't all been discussed before the Planning Group meeting yet. August 25th, one day after the Comissioner's meeting on Tues (the 24th) this Planning Group will continue the 17th meeting..and hear from the rest of the folks who had objections but were not able to speak due to running our of time on the 17th. After everyone is heard, the Planning Group will decide which lots are to be changed, then their decision will move on to the County Commissioners who will open it for public discussion and then will vote. I was in attendance at the meeting on the 17th so I know this to be a fact,
 
Wow. A lot of changes from residential preservation to neighborhood commercial. And correcting previous mistakes...? Hmm
 
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