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Shubin Law Group PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION December 6, 2024 Amy Canales, Planning and Zoning Director City of Sunny Isles Beach 18070 Collins Avenue, 311 Floor Sunny Isles Beach, Florida 33160 CITY OF y \SLES� L e �IBM/- RECEIVED 1/9/2025 PZ2024-07 PLANNING & ZONING DEPT. Re: Second Amended Letter of Intent/La Playa Beach Associates, LLC/18801 Collins Avenue Application for Modification of Previously Approved Site - Plan ("Application") Dear Ms. Canales: On behalf of this firm's client, La Playa Beach Associates LLC ("Applicant"), we respectfully submit this Second Amended Letter of Intent in support of the Application for major' modifications to the previously approved site plan seeking a density decrease and minor plan amendments for the approximately 4.716 -acre oceanfront property located at 18801 Collins Avenue (the "Property"). In 2022, through Resolution 22-Z-189, the City approved a Major Site Plan Modification for the Property that included a phased project with 490 residential units within two approximately 750 -foot -high towers consisting of 62 stories each, and the following amenities: (i) an 8,000 sqft. private spa exclusive for Resident and Club Member use; (ii) an 8,462 sqft. public restaurant consisting of 5,550 sqft. of indoor dining and 2,912 sqft. of outdoor dining; (iii) a Beach Bar & Grill consisting of 3,450 sqft. of indoor dining and 1,750 sqft. of outdoor dining exclusive for Resident and Club Member use; (iv) Conditional Use approval for a private members' Club; (iv) 17 private cabanas; and (v) 13 guest suites (the "2022 Approval").2 The total approved floor area ratio, including approved transfer of development rights ("TDRs"), is 5.98 (1,228,435 sqft.). 1 While we maintain that the proposed amendments satisfy the requirements for a minor modification under Section 265-18, City Code because they do not depart from the principal concept of the approved plan, we understand that the City's position is that the substantial decrease in proposed density requires review under the City's Major Site Plan Review process because the proposed density results in more than a 5% decrease in project density. As a result we submit the Application as a major modification in an abundance of caution. § 265-18, City LDR ("The City Manager shall administratively approve "minor" changes and deviations from an approved site plan which are in compliance with the provisions and intent of this chapter and which do not depart from the principal concept of the approved plan."). 2 Previously known as "La Playa Varadaro," the project was originally approved by the City Commission on November 19, 2015, through the adoption of Resolution No. 15-Z-156 (Site Plan 525 0 1< 2 Chob ivd " 1680 100 Sou! heart ?ncl St! ^t it407i% 1001 Wa�,�r 5r�. it610 West PMm, Beach, FL 0 101 bliami, FL 331;1 ]amn,a, rL -3 0? S' !.ibir.l, ; .jroun co l lel (30:i? 3 _! 605 =ax !3 ,j 3I 9457 22