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Page 6, January 7, 2019, The Islander Guale Preserve Continued from Page 4 egress out of parking area • The plan needs to show existing trees for Site 2 • The plan does not show distance of improvements from property lines • What material will be used for the trail? • How will the trail be accessed from the parking spots? • Has the CMPA (Coastal Marsh lands Protection Act) line been marked? Are there any wetlands on site? • Will both sites be known as Guale Preserve Site 1 and Site 2? Formal / proper names of each site needed for E911 purposes. • Site 1 - This road is shown as Musgrove Plantation Rd. in the GIS road database. If the owner would like to rename this road, right now is a good time to do so. If the owner keeps Musgrove Plantation Rd., the address will be 1050 Musgrove Plantation Rd. A road sign should also be erected. • Site 2 - Per the Addressing Ordi nance, a continuous road should have the same name throughout its entire length. The access to this site is really a continuation of Village Dr. Please label this portion of the road. The ad dress for this site will be 425 Village Dr. • The entrance arbor / gazebo is a new structure and site plan approval by the IPC (Island Planning Commis sion) is required.” On October 12, after questioning why a site plan permit was not re quired, German Village residents were instructed by the County Community Development Director that they must “request the plans via an Open Re cords Request” to find out any infor mation on SSLT plans for Musgrove or the status of staff review of the application. Thompson also informed the resi dents of her decision to “decline your request for a meeting.” The Islander made an Open Re cords Request for a copy of the final approved SSLT application with final staff review comments. Documenta tion has not been received to date. County Public Information Officer Matthew Kent responded on Janu ary 3 that the SSLT original plan was the only one on file. He stated that no written record of updated or final staff comments or approval of this “Infra structure Only” permit, including a public safety review for compliance, was available. He added that “there isn’t an actual document that is an “Infrastructure Only” permit, so technically we don’t have any documents responsive to your request.” It remains unclear what, if any, cor rections or modifications to the site construction plans were requested by County staff or were made by the SSLT. Further review of the original ap plication materials obtained by The Islander from the County in October show other notable omissions and er rors in the original Guale Site Con struction Plans submitted by SSLT. The Vicinity Map of the Plan Cover (Sheet 1) does not show both Site 1 and Site 2. Also, labeling of the adjacent Village Bluff Subdivision / German Village neighborhood and Musgrove Creek was erased. The map also improperly labels the middle entrance road to Musgrove as Village Drive. Sheet 2 of the Plan (Overall Site View) does not identify Village Bluff subdivision, does not label Musgrove Creek, nor does it show surrounding zoning districts or property ownership. The overall site plan does not iden tify the newly created Village Lane at the Musgrove caretaker’s back gate which still belongs to the Bagley family. The Historic African American Cemetery is not labeled. Although the plan shows a tennis court owned by the Bagley family, it does not show the private homes that flank the Site 2 en trance, including the Musgrove care taker’s home. Sheet 3 (Site 1 Layout) of the Plan does not show the ingress and egress point from Lawrence Road to the middle parking area. Any turn lane improvements and the location of park safety and identification signage are not shown. No fencing or gates are shown to separate park property from the Bagley’s Musgrove Retreat property. The Site 2 Layout in Sheet 4 of the construction plans omits the recently created private road (Village Lane) in front of the Musgrove caretaker’s home. County maps reveal the SSLT property does not actually touch Vil lage Drive, but is on the east side of Village Lane. A site visit shows that Village Lane is accessed from the end of the paved portion of Village Drive via a dirt ease ment between two homes. Assigning a Village Drive address to the new park would appear to be incorrect. Although the Site 1 drawing identi fied some significant trees, no tree in ventory for the Site 2 waterfront park area was included, despite the many mature oaks on this portion of the site. The ecological value of the “mature maritime forest” and “shell midden woodlands” in this waterfront area was emphasized in the DNR federal grant application. Of special concern was protection of the two species in this woodland area of Site 2, the Florida Privet (State Rare) and Climbing Buckthorn (State Threatened). The planned trail loop passes through the shell midden and associ ated protected vegetation delineated in the DNR grant application. The Plan did not indicate any en trance turn lane improvements or any improvements for ingress and egress at the park (caretaker) gate which is a single-lane dirt drive. Locations of any park safety and identification signage are not shown. The impact of traffic on the carrying capacity of residential Village Drive was not addressed in staff comments in the permit review history as of Oc tober 16. The zoning of surrounding prop erties was not labeled. 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