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Home My WebLink About1982 06 07 Memo Re: Newspaper Articles about CALNO C 4 J..JJ() June 7t 1982 M E M 0 RAN DUM From: Sanford City Commission City Manager To: Attached are' two newspaper articles covering the Council of local Governments meeting. Both are correct in what they say but neither covers the thrust of the particular topic addressed at the meet i.ng . Commissioner Keith asked me to attend as their agenda item was to discuss annexation. During the meeting, I was requested to speak and I presented the 1981 Senate study on annexation of enclaves. The purpose was: a} To point out the legislative definition of enclave that was used since the Florida Statutes do not define an enclave and this deficiency has meant several local lawsuits and considerable misunderstandings between the Seminole County Commission and most of the municipalities. The logic was to have all local agencies working with the same understanding of what an enclave is and for cities to act prudently in their annexation work. b} To point out that nearly all enclaves are created by the municipalities and by municipal actions without due planning of services; since there are many annexed areas not receiving all the municipal services although annexed. Municipalities have brought upon themselves, for the most part, the many enclaves (Sanford has 15). c} To point out a frequently encountered problem in municipal annexation was that developers request annexation to obtain utilities and to avoid long delays in procedures and technicalities they usually encounter on the County level. Among these is zoning since the County developed a land use plan but did not undertake the zoning to conform to the plan. Instead, it is left to individual requests' to consider and rezone piece-meal and thus require each developer to go through 90 to 120 days of expense, hearings, and delays. d} To point out that, at times, the County will not rezone areas to correspond to existing uses surrounding the parcel, even after annexation, and the developer is then held up for two years. The municipalities having the responsibility to handle the problems created but not being part of the regulations that create the problem. e} To point out the need for a tommittee to coordinate land use plans on the fringe areas of all local government agencies so as to avoid conflicts and to let developers know ahead of time what to expect and, therefor, save time. f) Requesting a committee be composed of non-elective, technical, staff people to develop the logic and the recommendation to bring back to the Council of Local Governments and, they in turn, to their governments. Memo to: Sanford City Commission From: City Manager -2- 6/7/82 CONCLUSION: The Council of Local Governments voted to undertake the committee study and to request each to appoint a member to the committee. NOTE: Reports of "unified land-use maps" never was discussed. Reports of "consolidation" were due to a remark of one Council member and had no bearing on the discussions taking place. Wek/mjh Attachments C.ounty moves toward univmed .Iand-use maps By Geri Throne ~ / 4- / e 7- .0#' THE SENTINEL STAFF SANFORD - Looking to end zoning conflicts on the fringes of cities, government leaders from the county and its seven municipalities have called for a truce. . .. The Council of Local Governments in Seminole County has agreed to form a committee to work . toward coordinating boundaries of the county's eight land-use maps. If successful, the committee eventually could de- velop a countywide land-use map that for the first time would mesh city and county land uses and would spell out zoning expectations beyond city Jimjts. rful of raising "the old bugaboo" of county con- 8O!...atlon, council members approached the probe lem of their zoning and annexation conflicts cautiously. the eight-member board, with representatives from each government entity, voted unanimously to have each member appoint a committee person. The committee would review city and county land uses, witb an eye toward getting abutting uses in agreement. The state requires all counties and cities to have land-use plans as guidelines for future zoning and development. Until now, most cities and counties have approved and revised maps with little consulta- tion with their neighbors. Conflicts arise among government agencies when one rezones or annexes property on its boundaries . without first determining if the county or an abut- ting city agrees with the change, Seminole County ; Commissioner Sandra Glenn told members. The proposai to bring all the comprehensive land uses in line came from Sanford City Manager War- . ren Knowles. Knowles and administrative staff from other government agencies were invited to attend the ~uncil meeting Wednesday night to discuss the . annexation process. ; _ Knowles objected to the numerous public hearings , that applicants must go through when a city and the county disagree on proposed land use for annexed . property. Government agencies should come up with . Joi~-'nd.planning areas, he said. - . "', . not saying there are not going to be points of conflict, but they can be resolved" before public bearings are held, he said. '. Altamonte Springs City Manager Jeff Etchberger ~ strongly supported Knowles' position. adding that : clties can streamline the annexation process by ; reaching an agreement with the county on the use of . property it is likely to annex in the future. . Glenn said county residents often complain to her that they are not notified of annexations and rezone lngs. County planning officials find out about annex. ations by reading legal advertisements, she said. . The 1974 state law establishing planning acts re- quires the county to approve the annexation and re- zoning of a parcel to a higher density use. Without tba~.pproval, a city can still annex a parcel but it . m Nait two years before allowing greater density : .~~':~iC?P~eD~. . to . ' 10 . . .. '. . ..... " .. , .. , , .. .. .. .. " 'to".. .. " '. .. . .. ._ .. ._ .. to. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. &0 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. a. .. .. . . , . . . . . r Committee Set To Work Out Seminole Zoning DiHefe~CeS Lake Mary City Councilman Ray Fox will be nex. ;r. / 4-1:; 2- looking out for his city's best interests as a Knowles criticized the county's COIl rr.~mber of an advisory committee to try and prehensive land use plan, saying even thOU! brmg some .order to the patchwork of Seminole some areas are planned for apartmerJ County zonmg. residential or commercial development, tl Representatives of the county's seven city county's zoning designations often do n governments and the County Commission at a correspond to planning designations. Council of Local Governments meeting earlier Knowles added that even though lands ml: this week agreed to create the committee. be designated for certain types of develo1 Its function will be to work out zoning and ment, the county often refuses matchiT planning differences before controversy arises zoning. among the individual governing bodies. Knowles cited a specific case where a parc The Lake Mary City Council Thursday night of property was designated for residentL named Fox with Councilman Gene McDonald development in the county's comprehensh as an alternate to the committee. plan, but was zoned agricultural. After U Sanford City Manager W.E. "Pete" Knowles property was annexed to the city, the counl originally suggested formation of the com- refused to change the zoning. Since the sta! mittee, noting that cities should have some law says the zoning, after annexation can't ~ influence in the planning and zoning of county changed without county approval, for t\1 areas which the cities might ultimately an- years, the owner cannot use his land. . .~ r I .# , ~ . J ~