St. Pete Beach approves Corey Landings with conditions, including park and sewer funds

The St. Pete Beach City Commission on Oct. 28 approved amendments enabling the Corey Landings mixed‑use project at 10 Corey Avenue, adopting ordinance 2025‑20 (first and final reading) and resolution 2025‑23 granting Conditional Use Permit 25069 with an extensive set of conditions negotiated between staff and the applicant.

The project was approved with unanimous votes on first reading, on final reading the same night, and on the CUP. The developer agreed to a bundle of public benefits that city staff and commissioners cited as central to their support: a one‑time $150,000 contribution for park maintenance and programming; design and construction of a park shade structure to be paid by the applicant; a one‑time $100,000 contribution for traffic calming to be paid at issuance of the first certificate of occupancy for a mixed‑use building; and payment of documented costs not to exceed $250,000 for pipelining and manhole repairs on the sewer line segment between the project and Pump Station 1 (staff said its estimate for that work was about $246,000).

The applicant also agreed to increase the number of transient dock slips from four to eight and to provide a kayak launch if federal/state permitting for submerged lands permits it (the kayak launch may replace one slip within the submerged land lease area if allowed). The transient slips will be open to the public when either the restaurant tenant or the public park opens, whichever comes first. The applicant will bond any public benefits that remain incomplete 24 months after the first building receives a certificate of occupancy.

Staff said the development will pay a transportation impact fee estimated at $201,208; the city’s share of that is approximately $108,652. On the sewer side, staff estimated total sewer‑related contributions (including connection fees) for the project at about $425,000, with the applicant covering specific manhole/pipelining work not to exceed $250,000. The applicant also agreed to repair road damage caused by construction above normal wear and tear and to post required bonds.

Traffic analysis, submitted by the applicant’s consultant, included additional Saturday counts (Oct. 18 and Oct. 25) adjusted for peak season using FDOT conversion factors; the consultant reported that intersections in the study area operate within capacity in both weekday PM and Saturday peak hours and that observed queues for the Mangrove Avenue turn lane were under modeled thresholds. Commissioners pressed for continued FDOT coordination and additional review of the Mangrove turn lane given local safety concerns.

The resolution contains multiple specific conditions (listed in the agenda packet) covering construction management, limits on dock uses (no overnight mooring; slips for temporary recreational use), water conservation and low‑flow fixture commitments, and enforcement provisions including a reduced cure period of seven days for compliance issues with allowance to continue working in good faith on non‑construction‑site violations.

Votes at a glance: ordinance 2025‑20 (first reading) — approved, unanimous; ordinance 2025‑20 (final reading) — approved, unanimous; resolution 2025‑23 (CUP 25069) — approved, unanimous.

Commissioners who voted yes in roll call were Vice Mayor Marriott, Commissioner Robinson, Commissioner Reznicki, Commissioner Maldonado and Mayor Adrian Petrillo.

The commission and staff said the negotiated public benefits — especially on parks, docks and sewer repairs — were an important tradeoff for granting the modified CUP and density allocation. The record includes the traffic study, the applicant’s public‑benefit commitments and a clean copy of conditions agreed by staff and the applicant.