10-03-1995 Workshop Meeting CITY OF CLERMONT
MINWI'ES
COUNCIL WORKSHOP MEETING
OCTOBER 3, 1995
A Workshop Meeting of the City Council of the City of Clermont was held Tuesday,
October 3, 1995 in the City Hall Conference Room. The meeting was called to order
by Mayor Pool at 6:30 p.m. with the following Council Members in attendance:
Council Member Sargent, Council Member Norquist, Council Member Dupee and
Council Member Cole. Also present was City Manager Saunders, Tom Rappe and
Max Brito of Strollo Architects, and Forest Michael of Michael & Michael.
Lake Minneola Waterfront Park
City Manager Saunders explained that the Strollo Architect representatives would like
to present the Council with some conceptual drawings for the new beach house and
pavilion area. He explained that Strollo is also on the project team for the Rails to
Trails project funded by the ISTEA grant and that they would also like to discuss the
design for the trail head.
Mr. Rappe and Mr. Brito then presented the Council with several sketches of the
facilities and received the comments from the Council. They explained that they
would work further with the sketches, keeping in mind the comments that the City
Council members had and present updated plans in the near future. Mr. Rappe and
Mr. Brito left the meeting at approximately 8:00 p.m.
Mr. Forest Michael then conducted the discussion of the waterfront park, specifically
talking about the proposed lighting. He presented several examples to the Council and
received their comments. He stated that he would select several lighting alternatives
and present them to the Council for their choice in the near future. Mr. Michael left
the meeting at approximately 8:15 p.m.
Mr. Richard Bell and Mr. Cai Hettinger entered the meeting and City Manager
Saunders explained that he had asked them to be there to discuss the proposed
agreement with Bell Ceramics regarding the swap of property at the intersection of
East Avenue/Grand Highway and Palm Lane which is now under design. He
presented each Council Member with a sketch of the properties that would be
southwest between the City and Bells Ceramics.
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Also discussed were the other concessions that the Council had previously talked about
regarding the road closing of Lake Minneola Drive which eliminates Bell's direct
access. It has been proposed that a new two-way driveway be constructed from East
Avenue to the lime rock parking lot and that a 10' one-lane driveway be constructed
from the showroom parking area on 2nd Street along the north side of the building
and terminating at the east end of their building.
Mr. Hettinger displayed a proposed layout for these driveways. Mr. Bell then
discussed a potential problem with the storage building that is located on the north
side of Lake Minneola Drive. He was concerned that after these improvements were
made that the large trucks that deliver to this building would not be able to access this
building.
After discussion, it was the consensus that a new storage building would be
constructed by the City either as a stand-alone building or an addition to Bell
Ceramics existing building that would be of the same square footage as the existing
storage building and that the City in return would take possession of the existing
storage building and property. City Manager Saunders explained that we would
provide new sketches showing the driveways as discussed and a revised agreement that
would cover all of the areas discussed during the meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 9:00 p.m.
Robert A. Pool, Mayor
Attest:
Jos~h E. Va(r'Zile, City Clerk