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make your decision. The appeal is filed with the City Clerk with a $200 fee. The City Commission will hear the appeal and the facts and make the decision as it constitutes a final Administrator Review. Beyond that the courts decide and the Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure applies. The Historic Preservation Board has designated a site, what does that mean to the property owner and to the Board? Any time the owner proposes a change to a landmark site, they must inform the City, first of all they must get a Building Permit. If they propose to do something substantial, an addition, or the changing out of windows, or the alteration to the roof, etc. the Board would be informed and would go through a Certificate of Appropriateness hearing, and we have gone through a couple of those. You would look at what is the property today, what is being planned and that is usually illustrated through photographs, site plans, surveys,etc., and then determine whether or not the changes that are being proposed would effect the integrity of the property,would it change it to such a degree that it no longer conveys its historical significance. You make that decision and the person can appeal it. There are incentives for historic preservation and right now to her knowledge the only incentive for someone in Sunny Isles Beach is Miami-Dade County's Ad Valorem Tax Incentive. You yourselves have one here in Sunny Isles Beach if you adopted or enacted it through the City Commission. What it does is if someone rehabilitates a property that has fallen in disrepair, if the property appraiser has appraised it at $100 and the land is worth $1,000,000.00, the money that the person puts into this property to make it livable and to look good, to add on, the value of that property that they are paying taxes on, the millage rate, would not go up. If it is worth $100 unimproved, and it is worth $500,000 when it is improved, for the next 10 years the taxes are held at the$100 rate. The Federal Government offers the 20% investment tax credit for depreciable (ie. rental property) commercial property. The 20%is a dollar per dollar credit on any money you spend on the rehabilitation of the building. In Section 171-6 we talk about the enforcement of maintenance and repair provisions. That discussion came up during the Pier discussion. The Board shall request appropriate officials or agencies of the City to require correction under the authority or applicable laws and regulations. If any of you see something that was falling in disrepair, it is your job to identify it and pass it on to officials to take action through their Code Enforcement Division. Lastly, in Section 171-7, Unsafe Structures, sometimes the building falls into such disrepair that it is a threat to people to be around it. The Board in that case can enter into negotiations with other agencies, you can make every effort to try to salvage that property from falling down. Everything she talked about is described in Chapter 171 under definitions at the beginning of the Chapter. John Rusnak noted that the Board is very fortunate to have Ellen Uguccioni address us. He knows her reputation in Miami-Dade County and she is an author, and is well respected. 6. Old Business. • Cassey Gabor asked what the status is on Temple B'nai Zion? Deputy City Attorney Fernando Amuchastegui said the case is still in litigation and it is pending in Federal Court for the Southern District of Florida. Cassey Gabor asked what the projection for the future is, Summary Minutes: 2014-0326 HPB Mtg Page 4 of 7