2002 0708 Special City Commission Workshop Minutes

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Summary Minutes:City Commission Workshop Meeting July 8,2002 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida • Neighborhood Business (B-1) — provides for retail sales and services to a surrounding neighborhood. Shelley Eichner: (Item I. page 3 on the agenda) Under prohibited uses, delete sale of goods other than to the ultimate consumer and sale of alcoholic beverages for on- premise consumption except with meals. Lot coverage permitted is 80% including parking and building coverage Landscaping increased from 10% to 20% of entire site Include minimum lot area to be 10,000 square feet. Base FAR increase from 1.5 to 2.0 Parking structures do not count towards FAR if they are camouflaged. • Community Business (B-2)— provides for general commercial activity for a wide range of goods and services to the entire community. In northern area: make it a B-1 The remaining B-2 is to be the new Town Center Overlay District, and currently there is no height limitation in place. Vice Mayor Iglesias strongly expressed his a opinion of opposition to any height restriction in the area. Mayor Samson agrees as to Sunny Isles Boulevard, but he wants some height restriction for Collins Avenue. Ms Eichner reminded that currently the Code has no height restriction fork the area, and that the Commission was not creating the Town Center district now. She was recommending that some maximum height be established for the current B-2 zoning area(which is one and the same as the Town Center — see further discussion below under Town Center Overlay). Commissioner Edelcup noted that Ms. Eichner had proposed 26 stories for the Blvd., and he suggested using the same for B-2 on Collins Avenue. Commissioner Kauffman suggested making a height limitation, and asked what difference in zoning criteria exists between Collins Avenue— going north and south, and Sunny Isles Blvd. — going east and west. She suggested that given the differences,jthev should be treated differently. Vice Mayor Iglesias suggested 35 stories with modifications. Mayor Samson proposed a temporary height limitation of 300' includink everything on the roof and parking; and for the Commission to determine killing visibility of an immediate building. (approximately 30 stories) Commissioner Edelcup' noted that it was still subject to setback requirements. Vice Mayor Iglesias then agreed with the Mayor to leave it at 30 stories now, 300 feet. Clifford Schulman agreed to 300 feet on an interim basis, but asked for an additional 20 or 25 feet for the rooftop elements; he then asked for 350 feet inclusive. Mayor Samson noted that Mr. Schulman had suggested 325 feet. He said "I'm not going to argue about 25 feet." Currently it says Lot coverage limited to 80%, but it could go to 90%. Consensus was to go with 80%. Include minimum lot area to be 10,000 square feet Base FAR increase from 1.5 to 2.0