2005 1208 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting December 8, 2005 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Desert Inn, Club One, is no longer with us due to a fire. He thanked the City and County staff for the tremendous effort in containing that fire, particularly he thanked Interim City Manager Maas and the Police Department, as well as Building Official Clay Parker. Mr. Schulman reported that they have submitted plans that meet the City Code requirements for a beach access and therefore at this point he is withdrawing any request that they had to waive the beach access requirement, as they have been able to come up with an engineering solution. He asked the project's Architect Kobi Karp to present renderings of the beach access. Mr. Karp said that they are proposing two beach accesses on the south and north side of the property, and that it will be landscaped and lit up, and they created a promenade with a fountain with a place to walk and sit. He also presented a sample material board. Mr. Schulman said that the way they were able to do this is to provide a mechanical lift to get people from the street up to that area and then through and to the beach. He said in addition to the beach access they will also dedicate an easement on both sides of their property to add to the Jade II and the Ocean Four access the 3-feet that they have which will make it a wider beach access on either side of their property. Mr. Schulman said regarding the tandem parking, the Fire Department told them that they have to provide 20-feet of access for a fire truck, not only on the west side of the building, but also on either the north side or the south side of the building, and the only way that they could do it was with 100% tandem parking. He said that they provided to the City, and it is now a condition of the suggested approval, that they will have 24/7 valet parking, that no resident will be allowed to park their own car in the building, and because of the fact that this property is unusual and due to the life safety requirements, they requested that the Commission grant this variance. Mr. Schulman offered to the City, in addition to whatever other monetary payments that they have to make to the City, an additional $1 Million to the City for a public school or other public purposes as determined by this Commission, that they would pay prior to the issuance of a Building Permit. He said that this means in addition to the $4.8 Million that they are already paying to the City for Bonuses, as well as TDRs, they would also pay an additional $1 Million at the time of the Building Permit, which would be a total of$5.8 Million. Mr. Schulman said that they are buying 43,000 square feet ofTDRs, and someone said that they are asking for too many units, but they are buying only two additional units. Mr. Schulman further stated that they are entitled to build 67 units on this property, they could build an additional 25 units but they are only building 2 additional units, for a total of 69 units. He said out of the TDR Bank, those 25 units, 23 of which he is never going to use, and no other developer in the City will ever be able to use those units, they are gone from the bank, therefore there is a net decrease of units in the TDR Bank of23, and they are only using two. He said they are taking the square footage and making bigger, more luxurious and more expensive units, but it adds to the City's benefit in having units of a higher quality and value. In summary, Mr. Schulman asked the Commission to follow staffs recommendation for approval, to approve the project with two additional conditions: 1) accept the voluntary offer of $1 Million prior to the issuance of the Building Permit for such purposes that the City 3