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 7. ORDINANCES FOR FIRST READING 7A. Public Hearing: Sitting in as the Local Planning Agency and the City Commission, to Consider an Ordinance Approving the Evaluation and Appraisal Report(EAR)Based Textural Amendments to the Comprehensive Plan. A Resolution of the Local Planning Agency of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, Approving the City of Sunny Isles Beach EAR-Based Textural Amendments to the City of Sunny Isles Beach's Comprehensive Master Plan, and the Required Transmittal to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity in Accordance with Section 163.3191,Florida Statutes; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: [City Clerk's Note: Items 7A and 7A.I were heard together.] City Clerk Hines read the title, and Planning and Zoning Administrator Claudia Hasbun reported. Commissioner Aelion moved and Vice Mayor Gatto seconded a motion to approve the resolution. LPA Resolution No. 2016-100 was adopted by a vote of 5-0 in favor. 7A.1 An Ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida,Adopting the Evaluation and Appraisal Notification Letter and Report-Based Textural Amendments to the City of Sunny Isles Beach's Comprehensive Master Plan and in Particular, Amendments to the Community Vision Statement, Future Land Use Element, Transportation Element, Housing Element, Recreation and Open Space Element, Capital Improvements Element, Coastal Management Element, Infrastructure Element, Conservation Element, Intergovernmental Coordination Element, Educational Facilities Element, Monitoring and Evaluation Amendments; Approving the Transmittal of the Report to the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity in Accordance with Section 163.3191,Florida Statutes; Providing for Severability;Providing for Repealer; Providing for Inclusion in the Code; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: City Clerk Hines read the title, and Planning and Zoning Administrator Claudia Hasbun reported that Jerry Bell of Bell David Planning Group is here tonight to make the presentation. Jerry Bell gave a PowerPoint presentation on how we got to the point we are at tonight. The project started in December 2014 and every City in the State of Florida is required to once every seven (7) years, do an evaluation and appraisal of their adopted Comprehensive Plan. The State has now kind of backed off on their requirements so what they really look for at the State level now in this evaluation is to look at the State Statutes in terms of growth management and identify any changes we need to make to the Comprehensive Plan to address any changes and State growth management requirements. The City decided to be a little more proactive,the City is at a point now where it is almost 20 years since the City has been incorporated. A lot has happened in the City since the first Comprehensive Plan was done, and so the City took a broader view that this is an opportunity to go back to make sure the Plan reflects the current state and vision of the City. Mr. Bell said we did the Evaluation and Appraisal Letter in December of 2014, and in accordance with the City's direction to go further than the minimum requirements, the City created a fact-finding committee, made up of some community leaders to provide input throughout the process. As Mayor Scholl had mentioned we did a survey that was on-line 6