2016-0121 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting January 21,2016 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida acoustics that we will present to you at the next presentation. Mr. Kline said when you get up to the top of the school there are learning gardens on the western side, and as we move up, these are the Seniors and Multi-Purpose rooms for City Hall. You have a capacity there as one room, or it can be subdivided with flexible moving walls that can seat up to 200 with catered kitchen, it can be a round table configuration, or it can be in a lecture series, each in excess of 200. On the western side of that floor is a small fitness area for the City. The next floor will be for civic expansion, a program that we still need to detail, and we will get to that in the next phase. The top three floors of the building are the office,roughly 10,000 square feet each. The real difference in the renderings you will see is that we increased the height of that component coming out on Collins Avenue to accommodate the escalators but he thinks it is very sympathetic to the existing Government Center in terms of the core elements reflecting the kind of dark granite that we have on the tower, white precast and an aluminum screen. On the southern side the glass will be as transparent as the Energy Code will allow us to make it, and as lightly reflected as possible. Commissioner Aelion asked if he made sure there was an amendment on the reduction of the sidewalk on the entrance to the west side of the new expansion to allow for buses to stop and unload kids while traffic can continue. He said we had spoken about it last time and you did actually amend it in the initial site plan drawing. Mr. Kline said we have an ability to have that bus drop off, and Commissioner Aelion said but it still is not enough,we spoke about it with staff and understood that yes, it is allowed by Code to reduce, because it is an internal street and so we can actually make the sidewalk narrower so that buses can go in kind of an inlet to drop the kids. Mr. Kline said we can do that and he thinks our other issue is that the site is 100 feet in the north/south. We have a garage entrance and so we have less than 70 feet to work with but we can certainly do that and bring that in. Our Architect is here and we can tell him to look at that width to make sure that the buses are accommodated. Commissioner Aelion said the other issue is on parking, the parking spaces are in line with the Code for the annex building. However, if there is a situation where we have an event in the theater, and another event by the seniors at the same time, will the parking suffice for both events? In other words, take a scenario that it is at full capacity, in the afternoon the offices are still operating,there is an event in the theater,plus there is an event of seniors at a gathering, do you take into account that there is enough parking for all of these events simultaneously happening? Salman Rathore said eventually he is going to be showing the shared parking that is acquired but lets say two events are happening at the same time and so that has to be planned and that is what we discussed with City staff and the City Manager. The idea was that you do not have two events happening at the same time,and so there has to be a certain planning that needs to happen. Commissioner Aelion said that means no. Commissioner Levin said you just gave us a new revised plan, including the one that we had before,and based on the one we were given before, it appeared that there was no way to walk from Collins Avenue to Atlantic Boulevard in the new property. But if you look at page 6 of this, there is clearly a way to walk through. Why did that change? Mr. Kline said the pedestrian passage now is going to be on the southern edge of the garage of Government Center. He asked Commissioner Levin if she was talking about the pedestrian passage from west to east,and Commissioner Levin said yes but on the expansion property. Mr.Kline said 14