Resolution 453-1999
County Attorney
RESOLUTION NO. 453 -1999
A RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY.
EVIDENCING THE BOARD'S APPROVAL OF A RECOMMENDED BENEFICIAL USE
DETERMINATION PROMULGATED BY THE SPECIAL MASTER, IN RE: THE APPLICATION
GLENN AND BARBARA GRAY
WHEREAS, on January 4. 1996. the Monroe County Year 2010 Comprehensive Plan became
effective; and
WHEREAS, the application of Glenn and Barbara Gray for determination of beneficial use was
heard by Special Master J. Jefferson Overby on March 26, 1999; now therefore
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA,
that:
The Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law and recommendations of the Special Master as
set forth in the proposed determination are APPROVED and the application of Glenn and Barbara
Gray is accordingly APPROVED, subject to the conditions listed in the attached Proposed Beneficial
Use Determination, dated March 31, 1999.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Board of County Commissioners of Monroe County. Florida, at a
regular meeting of the Board held on the 9th day of September, 1999.
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BENEFICIAL USE
MONROE COUNTY SPECIAL MASTER
In Re: Glenn and Barbara Gray- Beneficial Use
Application
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PROPOSED
BENEFICIAL USE DETERMINATION
The above entitled matter was originally heard at a duly-advertised and regularly
scheduled, public hearing on September 25, 1997, by the former Special Master, who
disqualified himself. The matter was originally filed as a vested rights case but converted
at the applicants' request to a beneficial use case prior to the February 12, 1999 hearing.
The matter was finally heard at a duly advertised and regularly scheduled, public hearing
on March 26, 1999, at the Harvey Government Center, Key West. This case was
reassigned to 1. Jefferson Overby, designated Beneficial Use Special Master. David Paul
Horan, Esq., Horan & Horan, represented the applicants. Assistant County Attorney
Garth Coller and Planning Director Timothy J. McGarry, Director of Planning, and Ross
Alliston, Director of Environmental Resources, represented Monroe County.
ISSUE
Whether the applicants will be denied all reasonable economic use of their
property by application of Policies 203.1.3 and 204.24 of the Year 2010 Comprehensive
Plan, and whet~er the applicants are entitled to relief under Policies contained in
Objective 101.18 of the Year 2010 Comprehensive Plan (as administered and
implemented in the "Agreement between the Department of Community Affairs and
Monroe County" dated February 23, 1998), the approved portions of Ordinance 052-1997
and the Monroe County Code.
FINDINGS OF FACT
1. The Applicants purchased the subject property in May 8, 1990, which is a
lot of record, located at Lot IB, Ramrod Shores 2nd Addition, Ramrod Key. The lot is
approximately 15,000 square feet) and is zoned "Improved Subdivision" and is currently
cleared. The lot contains a partially built single family residence with a concrete slab and
columns. There is also a septic system and utility connections on site.
2. The Applicants were issued a building permit for a residential building
(permit #90-1-0886) in May 11, 1990. Due to adverse conditions suffered by the
applicants, the work was discontinued and the permit expired in September 1991.
CONCLUSIONS OF LAW
3. The Applicants' lot is designated Improved Subdivision, which allows one
residential dwelling and accessory uses to be permitted on this lot, except for the changes
now occasioned by the 2010 Plan.
4. Application of Policy 203.1.3 of the 2010 Comprehensive Plan has
rendered the lot unbuildable.
A. As an Improved Subdivision lot the subject property has no TDR
value.
B. Completion of the residential dwelling on the applicants' lot is
prohibited, because the subject lot would require a variance from the setback, for the
northern shoreline of the property, to be in compliance with the setback requirements
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required under 2010 Comprehensive Plan 203.1.3.
C. The New comprehensive plan had the effect of reducing the TDR
value of the property to zero.
D. Although the applicants' original permit was issued prior to
RaGa, it would be unfair and an unreasonable and inequitable financial burden to
require the applicants to bear the additional $107,000.00 costs and delays caused by
entering the RaGa system. Furthermore, denial of beneficial use would require the
demolition of the prior improvements on the subject property.
5. Pursuant to Policy 101.18.5 and Section 4(D) of the Agreement between
DCA and Monroe County, I have considered:
A. . the economic impact of the Policy (or regulation) that prohibits
development on the applicants' lot, which is located within an Improved Subdivision; and
B. the extent to which the regulations have interfered with the
applicants' reasonable investment-backed expectation that some use could be made of
this lot.
C. staff recommendations.
6. The lot is located within an improved subdivision that is partly developed.
7. A strict application of Policy 203.1.3 and Policy would prevent or prohibit
the applicant from developing a single family dwelling on this lot.
8. Although just compensation is the preferred option under Policy 101.18.5,
neither the applicants are interested in selling, nor the land authority are interested in
acquisition of this lot, which is located along the canal shoreline of a mostly-developed,
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small-lot subdivision.
9. Limited development of this lot should be approved as the minimum
necessary to avoid a taking based on current land use case law, and that this lot is suitable
for development under specific conditions.
WHEREFORE, I recommend to the Board of County Commissioners that a final
beneficial use determination be entered approving limited development on this lot
subject to the following conditions:
1. The applicants shall resubmit a building permit application
including revised building and, if necessary, site plans, including written approval by the
Department of Health of the on-site wastewater disposal and treatment system.
2. This Beneficial use determination shall not exceed five (5) years
and is contingent upon the applicants' releasing Monroe County from all liability , if any,
past, present and future, with regards to the subject property.
3. The subject property and proposed residence shall be required to
meet all provisions of the 2010 Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations,
except the set-back from the northern edge of the subject lot shall be exempt from the 50
foot shoreline set-back provisions of Section 9.5-286(a) of the Monroe County Code
provided that said shoreline set-back is not less than twenty (20) feet and that storm water
runoff is contained on site.
4. The applicants shall not be required to pay any impact fees for their
building permit.
5. The applicants shall be exempt from RaGa, because their permit
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was one of the "committed" units recognized prior to the adoption ofROGO.
DONE AND ORDERED this 31st day of March, 1999.
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