2007 1213 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting December 13,2007 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida up. Vice Mayor Thaler said that we have to look at the entire City, not just a particular neighborhood. Commissioner Scholl said that most of our City lives in condominiums, and he feels that most condominium dwellers would argue that there are far too many rules in those condominiums, and to change their rules, they have to vote on it as a condominium. He said we have two single- family neighborhoods in the City, and he understands that we are trying to improve the aesthetics nature of the City but he also believes that we have unique appeal in our single- family neighborhoods. He said that he believes that people who have moved into these neighborhoods have recently spent millions of dollars in terms of building their houses, knowing what those rules and regulations are, and not anticipating that those rules and regulations are going to get more liberal or more onerous, and he wants to be very careful as a City about how we impose these things on single-family homes, as that is part of the benefit that our homeowners had when they purchased their homes, the liberal standards within those neighborhoods. He said that these things have not been an issue for 60 years and now we are bringing them up and he feels we need to be very careful about how we dictate these things and making issues more restrictive. Mayor Ede1cup said for the last 10 years we have been a City and before that the County didn't care what we did over here, and that was one of the reasons we became a City. He said we have all been talking about beautiful boats, but other things such as trailers, storage vehicles, jet skis, old dilapidated equipment, etc., may serve well in recreational areas but is this what we want to see here. He said the condos have associations, but when you get down to the single-family homes it falls on us to make the decision for those areas that don't have that self-governance on their own. He said we have to, in effect, become the condo board for those areas because there is a certain standard that we are trying to portray for this entire City and so even though single-family homeowners have the liberty of not being an association, they still fall within some guidelines which are promulgated then by the City through its ordinances. He stated that there is a standard that the City has been working on for the last 10 years which has been to aesthetically upgrade the City, and what we have been asking for tonight is really a minor change that the front side needs to be screened because we are not always going to be looking at a beautiful boat. Vice Mayor Thaler said that the condos don't control themselves, we have put ordinances on the books to control what the condos have done, such as the control of satellites on condos, we did not include the single-family homes in that, so it does work both ways. Commissioner Scholl said that he just wanted to be clear about his point, if we are the de facto board for the single-family neighborhoods lets make sure that the issues that we are taking up rise up from the single-family neighborhoods, that is more his concern and less this particular issue. Commissioner Goodman moved and Vice Mayor Thaler seconded a motion to approve the proposed ordinance on first reading. The motion was approved by a roll call vote of 4-1 (Commissioner Scholl against) in favor. Second reading, public hearing will be held on Thursday, January 17,2008, at 7:30 p.m. V ote: Commissioner Brezin yes Commissioner Goodman yes Commissioner Scholl no Vice Mayor Thaler yes Mayor Ede1cup yes 9