2015-1119 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting November 19,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida as an amenity for our residents but also for the residents of Sunny Isles Beach,whether it is in the food and beverage side or other aspects of the hotel. Chad Friedman, Esq. said they are excited to bring this next vision to Florida's Riviera. He introduced the team here tonight, Project Designer is Chris Veddeler from UNStudio, the Architecture Firm of record is Ed O'Donnell from ODP Architects,Daniel Vasini from West8, Ken Gardner from Rosenberg Gardner who are their Landscape Architects,and Juan Espinosa of David Plummer and Associates who handles traffic. He entered into the record backup materials as well as their resumes. He asked Chris Veddeler from UNStudio to explain some of the beautiful designs and projects they have been doing around the world. Mr. Veddeler presented a power point on their Design Firm based in Amsterdam, and they have been operating internationally since 1988, and have 90 projects they have designed. Mr. Friedman reiterated that they concur with staff analysis of this project, and he thanked staff for their hard work, and congratulated Claudia Hasbun on her AICP. He showed the 3D model of the project with and without TDRs. They are requesting bonuses as well as TDRs in an amount that equates to approximately $48 Million. This is an as-of-right project, and is approximately 1.2 million square feet developed on site. He asked Chris Veddeler to walk us through the actual design of the building, how it flows, and how it fits the site. Mr. Veddeler said what they are trying to achieve is to generate an impact of an outstanding design to contribute to the City. They have generated the project as such that it tries to make a one building concept with two towers. They have an addressing of the two sides,the eastern side is to the beach,and the western side is to Collins Avenue,and he described the renderings of the project. There are two separate driveways for Tower One and for Tower Two, with a vantage point in the middle that tries to connect as much as possible from Collins Avenue to the beach side. They have that possibility to have an extension of 433-foot width of the pool deck in relationship to the eastern side to address the beach. They have the two towers ranked to one another on top of the podium, the podium contains the platform for parking, and it contains a level which is directly connected to the Pool deck. On top of it, 20 feet off from Collins Avenue, we have the two towers, the amenities program sits on the bottom four(4) floors,on top of it in Tower One the hotel and the condo/hotel,the residential units. In Tower Two there are four(4)floors of amenities,and the rest of residential programs. What they are trying to achieve is to distinct one building with two towers approach, basically, two respectively three distinct entrances from Collins Avenue. They have a separate entrance and address for the amenities office, the hotel, and the residences of Tower Two. The addresses have slightly shifted the volumes in relation to one another. This is also differentiating the volume in a specific way from Collins Avenue and they have a sign that helps convey this idea basically to frame the out of area into the beach. Mr. Veddeler said they have a publicly acceptable vantage point in the middle that is connecting the westward side with a staircase to the eastern side. In regards to the boiler rooms which you can see from Collins Avenue where we are trying to reduce the size of the podium with underlying program of parking as much as possible with a massive wall that is appearing but they have eliminated the height to 20 feet. They have two separate entranceways in order to approach the two parts of the building, and having this elevated vantage point level in between the buildings connecting to the other side. In order to 5