1992-09-09 Drago to Royce ''/O* OKftC,S.
City of Okeechobee
55 S.E. 'Third Avenue • Okeechobee, Florida 34974-2932 . 813/763-3372
TELECOPIER TRANSMITTAL SHEET
TO: William D. Royce
COMPANY: Okeechobee County Planning and Development Dept.
FAX NO„ 813/ 763-5276
FROM: John J. Drago, City Administrator
COMPANY: City of Okeechobee
FAX NO„ 813/763-1686
DATE: September 9, 1992
NUMBER OF PAGES INCLUDING THIS PAGE: 3
SUBJECT: County Comprehensive Plan.
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September 9, 1992
VIA FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION 813/763-5276 AND U.S. MAIL
William D. Royce
Director
Okeechobee County Planning and Development Department
499 Northwest 5th Avenue
Okeechobee, Florida 34972
Dear Bill:
This is in response to your letter of September 8, 1992 in
which you refer to the meeting scheduled between representatives of
the City and County on September 15, 1992 at 1: 00 p.m. to discuss
the City' s Petition to the Department of Community Affairs for an
Administrative Hearing regarding the County' s adopted Comprehensive
Plan.
The City is pleased to learn that although Okeechobee County
has not made an official appearance in the administrative
proceedings currently pending before the Division of Administrative
Hearings, the County is eager to meet with the City' s
representatives, discuss the issues, receive recommendations and
respond by agreeing to make changes to the County' s Plan and/or
take other action which addresses the City' s concerns.
The City Attorney and I are in complete agreement with your
statement that a meeting between representatives of the City and
County to discuss the County' s Comprehensive Plan is a good idea.
The City Attorney and I are also in complete agreement that
meetings between representatives of the City and County would be
more productive if, in advance of such meetings, the City and
County exchanged copies of written documents and other information
necessary to successfully negotiate the issues. However, until the
County completes its response to the City' s previous request for
planning documents which were prepared for the County' s
consideration during the plan adoption proceedings, it will be
impossible for the City to complete its analysis of the County' s
plan and the County' s action in adopting its plan so as to have a
complete picture of what issues need to be discussed by the City' s
and County's representatives.
William D. Royce
September 9, 1992
Page Two
Therefore, the City would greatly appreciate it if the County
would complete its response to the public records request filed by
the City on March 30, 1992 and partially responded to by the County
on April 1, 1992 and June 4, 1992 . (See Paragraphs 15, 16 and 23
of the City' s Petition and attached exhibits "D" , "E" , "G" , and
"H" . )
Also, in addition to the documents which the City requested in
its March 30, 1992 public records request, the City would also
appreciate copies of the following two documents referred to in the
County' s Plan: ( 1) the Draft Okeechobee County Utility System
Study (Craig A. Smith and Associates, 1991) referred to in "G.
List of Sources" at page IV-63 of the April 1992 Data & Analysis
document for the Water and Sewer Element; and (2) the Okeechobee
County Utility System Study, referred to at pages IV-8, IV-10, and
IV-24 of the April 1992 Data & Analysis document for the Water and
Sewer Element.
Please inform me immediately as to when and how the County
will transmit the requested documents to the City' s Special Counsel
for land use matters at the following address.
Michael Wm. Morell
Attorney at Law
310 West College Avenue
Tallahassee, Florida 32301-1406
(904 ) 425-8300
Hopefully, the County will be able to provide the City' s
Special Counsel with the requested documents as soon as possible so
that the City may prepare for, as you refer to in you letter, "an
even more productive meeting" .
With best personal regards, I am
Sinc- fly, _
' Jyn J. Dra o
. ty Admin strator
cc: John Cook, City Attorney for City of Okeechobee (By U.S. Mail)
Dave Rivera, Acting County Manager (By U.S. Mail)
John Cassels, County Attorney (By U.S. Mail)
Michael Wm. Morell, Special Counsel to City (By U.S. Mail)