Port Charlotte County Regular and Land Use Meeting 2025-03-25

A Port Charlotte County Regular and Land Use meeting was held on 2025-03-25.  There were 2 agenda items included related to the Harbor Village development (see below).   I heard that only 1 VHL resident attended.  No personal comments are included on what was discussed.

The following files were published on the county website related to this meeting.  Those documents were downloaded locally to this web site for archival purposes and linked below.

Click:  March 25 Regular & Land Use Meeting,  to view actual meeting information.  See below for a copy of agenda items.

Port Charlotte County Regular and Land Use Meeting – 03-25-2025

March 25 Regular & Land Use Meeting

  • The following 2 items were listed on the agenda
  • Click the links below to review documentation specific to each amendment

UB3. TCP-24-03, Harbor Village Comprehensive Plan Amendment
Community Development
Pursuant to Section 163.3184(3), Florida Statutes, an application to transmit a
Large-scale Plan Amendment (Text Amendment) to the Department of Commerce and
other State agencies for review and comment to amend Future Land Use (FLU)
Appendix VII: Compact Growth Mixed Use Master Development Plan by revising
Section 1: West County Town Center, specifically, 1) changing the name of Section 1
from “West County Town Center” to “Harbor Village”; 2) amending the total acreage of
this project from 1,187± to 1,174.14± acres; and 3) amending a) 1.A: Base Residential
Density to decrease the base density from 1,831 units to 1,790 units; b) 1.B: Maximum
Residential Density to reduce the residential development rights from 3,960 units to3,475 units; c) 1.C:
o rename and amend “Maximum Floor Area Ratio” to “Maximum
Commercial and Light Industrial Intensity”; d) 1.D: to remove “Perpetual Conservation
Easement” and replace with “Uses Permitted Within Area A As Shown on Figure 1-C
Above”; and e) 1.E: Master Development Plan to adopt a new Master Land Use
Plan/Pattern Book; for properties generally located southeast of McCall Road (SR 776)
and southwest of the Myakka River, in the West County area; Petition No. TCP-24-03;
Applicant: Maronda Homes LLC, of Florida; providing an effective date. Located in
Commission District IV.

UB4. PAL-24-04, Harbor Village Large Scale Map Amendments
Community Development
Pursuant to Section 163.3184(3), Florida Statutes, transmit a Large-scale Plan
Amendment to the Florida Department of Commerce and other State agencies for
review and comment; the amendment request is to 1) amend Charlotte County FLUM
Series Map #1: 2030 Future Land Use from Compact Growth Mixed Use (CGMU)
(1,081.75± acres) and Preservation (PR) (92.39± acres) to CGMU (1,010.69± acres)
and PR (163.45± acres) in order to allow for a mixture of residential uses up to 3,475
units (a reduction of 485 units), commercial, and light industrial uses up to 1,400,000
square feet (a reduction of 109,807 square feet); increasing the base density from
1,631 units to 1,790 units with an approved PD ordinance, restricting development on
Area A as identified under Section 1 of FLU Appendix VII: Compact Growth Mixed Use
Master Development Plan to low impact recreational uses/passive recreational uses to
3,475 units; 2) amend Charlotte County FLUM Series Map #2: 2050 Framework, from
Agricultural/Rural to Emerging Neighborhood for 28.01± acres of properties and 99.13±
acres of properties from Emerging Neighborhood to Agricultural/Rural; and 3) amend
Charlotte County FLUM Series Map #3: 2030 Service Area Delineation, to extend the
Urban Service Area boundary to include 28.01± acres of properties and to concurrently
remove 99.13± acres of properties from the Urban Service Area; for properties
generally located southeast of McCall Road (SR 776) and southwest of the Myakka
River, in the West County area, containing 1,174.14± acres; Petition No. PAL-24-04;
Applicant: Maronda Homes LLC, of Florida; providing an effective date. Located in
Commission District IV.
Legislative

Village Of Holiday Lake Harbor Village Development – 2025

The developers of Harbor Village came to a recent VHL coffee meeting on 3/12/2025 and provided an overview presentation about their proposed development.  At the conclusion, they opened the meeting up to a question and answer session.

Click the link below to download a PDF copy of the VHL presentation:

This presentation was previously presented to the Charlotte County Planning Board.  A follow-up presentation to the full county planning board will occur on 3/25/25.  I am not sure if a “vote” will occur…

 

Nathan Perry and Crystal Wang Wedding

My nephew, Nathan Perry, married Crystal Wang on August 4th, 2023.   The ceremony was performed at the terminus of the 4.5 round-trip Angels Rest trail in Corbett Oregon which they hiked on their first date.  They will be hosting a wedding ceremony sometime in the near future that Sue and I will attend and visit Virgil and March Perry.

We first met Crystal when they visited Bostwick Lake this summer during July holidays and hope to have both of them return often.

I’ve assembled a collection of images related to the wedding in this photo album:

We Buy A New (used) 2018 Harris Pontoon!

Sue and I purchased a replacement pontoon before returning from Memorial Day vacation.   Our very-old 2001 Plabuoy finally was just too much to maintain.  This winter while in storage a racoon tore up 3 seats and urinated all over the boat. The motor decided to not run well above 4K RPM (probably needed a gas line filter cleaning).   It was time to upgrade.

We purchased a used 2018 Harris Pontoon from a local marina.  It was not even listed yet as it was only delivered a day before we stopped by.   Hopefully this one will last another 20 years like the one we currently have.

Here is a link to pictures we took at the marina…

http://edbergnet.com/2023%20-%20Harris%20Pontoon/

The marina will clean the boat, validate everything is working and change all fluids, filters, etc on the motor.  

We also traded-in our existing pontoon as it would be hard for us to sell if Sue and I were not around.   The mechanic stated they probably would just rebuild the motor next winter and sell it separately from the base pontoon which would go to a builder to refurbish.

Sue and I will arrive around 6/18 and schedule them to deliver the pontoon within a couple days.  They will take the old pontoon then too.

Edberg & Gernes Tour Whiskey Acres in DeKalb, IL. 5/5/2023

We toured the Whiskey Acres Estate on 5/5/2023 to learn about the distillery and sample a few of it’s products. It’s located just out side of DeKalb, IL. which is an easy 35 min drive west on I-88 from Naperville. Sue and I arrived for our 6pm tour at 4:30 and had a picnic lunch in their courtyard. It was the first 80 day, breezy and relaxing. The Gernes family arrived soon thereafter (Deborah, Lee, Adam, Ren & 2 other friends). On the tour we learned that Whiskey Acres distillery opened about 2014 on a corner of the 2000 acre farm to diversify income. They are only the 2nd Artisan distillery in America to grow all of the grain (corn, wheat, rye & barley) they also use in their products. They specialize in Bourbon and Rye. The master distiller retired from Makers Mark. I took Tour Pictures showing the distillery during the tour. At the end of the tour we sampled a Bonded Bourbon, Straight Rye, and their Artisan Series Bourbon. I liked the Bonded Bourbon best (honey notes – dare I say similar to Makers Mark) best. The Straight Rye was lightly flavored for the new rye drinker. The Artisan Series Bourbon was the smoothest but lacked body IMO.

Katherine Metz & Garrett Quick’s Wedding – 04/22/23

Eric Edberg’s niece, Katherine Metz, married Garrett Quick on Sat 04/22/23. The wedding was held in Elgin IL. and attended by close relatives. Click <HERE> to view pictures of the wedding taken by several family members. I will be adding additional photos when I obtain them. If you have any that you wish to included in this repository please contact me.

VHL Charlotte County Property Records & Sales

Clicking the URL below will download an Excel Spreadsheet (XLSX) listing VHL PROPERTY and SALES records for VHL. The data was obtained from the Charlotte County Property Appraiser website. It was downloaded as raw CSV values and imported into an XLS workbook. Additional formatting was then applied. I have updated and maintained it for numerous years.

  • README: A quick overview about the data
  • PROPERTY spreadsheets list the property owners at the end of each calendar year (or the last time I imported data for the current calendar year)
  • SALES records list properties sold each calendar year
  • A separate SALES worksheet lists a history of sales from early 1990s

Click the link below to download the most recent copy of the XLS:

Note: The data is copied verbatim from the Charlotte County web site. I cannot validate these records and assume that the information is correct.

Hurricane IAN Casualty Loss

I sent an email to my tax accountant in Dec 2022 asking how to claim a “Hurricane IAN” casualty loss on my 2022 federal taxes. Since hurricane IAN is a federally declared disaster, with an approved FEMA disaster code (DR-4673-FL), individuals may claim a disaster loss on their federal tax form (under certain conditions).

Note that I’m not a tax expert and provide this information as-is. You will/should contact your own tax accountant for additional information.

My tax accountant responded with 2 attachments that help explain this issue:

  • Hurricane IAN CPA Tax Assistance Guide. This guide was provided by a service my tax accountant obtained that provides business advise.
  • IRS Booklet 584. This booklet is published by the IRS and provides instructions and help guide on how to calculate a loss that you may deduct.
  • DR-4673-FL. FEMA Hurricane IAN Quick Links

Most of the requirements necessary to calculate your loss state that you must calculate the loss suffered by comparing the pre-IAN residence value to the post-IAN value. Additionally, this paragraph was included in the brief sent to my accountant which implies that you can claim a loss on the “cost to repair or replace” damaged items.

So, read the information above and contact your tax specialist for clarification.

Send email to me if you want me to correct or alter this information at: ele@EdbergNet.com

DuPage Forest Preserve Clam Propagation

Jacques Hooymans, Sue and Eric Edberg took a tour of the DuPage Forest Preserve’s Clam and Dragon Fly propagation facility in Blackwell Forest Preserve.  We learned how the staff are propagating native clams to keep populations stable and how Dragon Fly’s are grown.

The tour was interesting in that we learned that clams depend on, and initially grow attached to, the gills of fish for a couple months before they drop off and continue to grow.   This facility normally grows a new crop of clams each year using fish caught in the local streams.  They are release at then end of the year if growth permits.  The fish are also released at the end of the year too.

New Image Repository: Bird Family & Grand Rapids

After collecting, scanning, and inventorying many photo’s of the Bird family, relatives, and friends I finally uploaded them to this new image repository.  Thanks to Marcy Perry who helped re-name and correct date’s for many images of Dick and Leone’s relatives.   If you want to see these images click the URL below:

https://www.edbergnet.com/Bird%20Grand%20Rapids/album/index.html