2004 0115 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting January 15,2004 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Rorida on the west side to tone down development and provide public plazas. Commissioner Iglesias stated that the Transfer of Development Rights from privately owned sites to sender sites, and based on the recommendation of the workshop that the City's Planner said a 3.7 FAR could be obtained on certain sites by getting the enclosed parking, the public bonus plaza, the public bay-walk, and site assembly, and in addition to that it was his belief that there should be a lO-year date of windows when TDRs could be used for private to private. Commissioner Iglesias stated that he has brought back a proposed amendment that would give the City valuable land to be used for public purpose, mainly a park, and he has toned down his lO-years to 5-years, toned down the FAR to 3.75, and most importantly the fact that still remains at any time that the City doesn't like the property that it is going to get, has a right to reject it. He noted that Vice Mayor Goodman has been working two years trying to expand the Fire Rescue Station. Mayor Ede1cup brought up two technical changes: when referred to owners ofTDRs this is clarifying that to mean owners, their successors, heirs, or assigns; and, on page 11 there is a second amendment that is basically asking the City to always act in good faith whenever they are dealing on TDRs, because every time someone comes to the City to use those TDRs, the Commission still has to approve those TDRs in a Site Plan Review, and always has that discretion to accept or turn down the use of those TDRs by turning down that site plan, and basically it is saying that a sender site donor shall be approved by the City using good faith. Mayor Ede1cup further stated that this Ordinance is describing the fact that there are two kinds of banks for TDRs, there is the bank for City-owned TDRs, and there is the private bank that will exist in the situation where the sender does not use all of the TDRs at an initial time on a new site, and therefore he will have a bank similar to what the City has in which to use it over the 5-year period. City Attorney Dannheisser stated that one last minor change is when we were talking about the balance of the 50,000 square feet and the 100,000 square feet we were referring to City-owned not privately owned. Commissioner Iglesias moved and Commissioner Thaler seconded a motion to approve the Alternative 2 proposal on first reading, as amended. The motion was approved by a roll call vote of 5-0 in favor. Second reading, public hearing will be held on Thursday, February 19,2004, at 7:30 p.m. Vote: Commissioner Brezin yes Commissioner Iglesias yes Commissioner Thaler yes Vice Mayor Goodman yes Mayor Ede1cup yes SB. Sitting in as the Local Planning Agency and the City Commission, to Consider an Ordinance Amending the Land Development Regulations (LDRs) SB.1 A Resolution of the Local Planning Agency of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, Recommending to the City Commission of Sunny Isles Beach, the Ordinance Amending 7