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<br />Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting <br /> <br />July 14,2005 <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida <br /> <br />opportunity and that is that the beach access on the south end of the property aligns directly <br />with their sidewalk at the light, so it is an intersected light and those people would cross the <br />beach access different then a lot of problems in Sunny Isles Beach where they jump into the <br />median and there are a lot of accidents, and if they want to work with the State to put in a <br />pedestrian crossing in there to make it longer to cross the street he feels that would be <br />appropriate. He said as to the traffic circulation, it is always a challenging process given the <br />quasi-judicial and the inability to deal with the Commission in preparing different plans and at <br />what point it is presented to the Commission. He stated that they had originally contemplated <br />an internal circulation as they are doing in Hallandale where there is one point of ingress <br />egress and they proposed it but Planning and staff were not in favor of that because it put an <br />enormous amount of asphalt in that 75-feet. Mr. Daly said what staff eluded to was that they <br />have a water wall at 50-feet but the buildings like Ocean I, II, and III are all set back 75-feet <br />from the street. He stated that they went to the State to see what they wanted, and they ended <br />up with what the State approved which was that the State didn't want it intersected at the <br />traffic light, and the middle building is similar to what they did at Ocean IV. Commissioner <br />Goodman said he was concerned with the safety of the people but Mr. Daly said that with the <br />traffic light and the signalization of that crosswalk that it would protect the people. <br /> <br />Commissioner Goodman said he appreciates that they lowered the garage to 20-feet but he <br />would also appreciate it to leave that level at 20-feet and put in the shrubbery because he <br />noticed in some of the other buildings that the garage is 20- feet but then they put up a four- <br />foot wall because they use the top of the garage as an area for the people that live there, so <br />when they talk about the garage being 20-feet high, are they going to put up a wall between <br />the buildings to make it look 25-26 feet. Mr. Daly said they would work with staff, and one of <br />the things that they proposed in the previous scenario was that from the street they wouldn't <br />see it, so would it be offensive to the Commission if they put it back so when you are standing <br />at the sidewalk, there was a planter but it was back far enough based on the angle of the 20- <br />feet that you couldn't see it, and Commissioner Goodman said yes that would serve the <br />purpose. Mr. Daly said to clarify what they did previously was, assuming that the <br />Commission favorably responds to the TDRs, they had a 30-foot high parapet and what they <br />did to respond to Commissioner Goodman, to add parking, and to eliminate the triple tandem <br />was that they actually, within the footprint of the building, added another level of parking <br />while contemporaneous lowering the pool deck between the buildings so they had actually <br />added a level of parking and they shorten the parapets, the overall height of the building has <br />not changed, but they did provide an additional level of parking in each building. <br /> <br />Vice Mayor Thaler said that they have corrected the parking problem, but one of the things <br />that they brought up in the June meeting was the 825-feet and had asked for the variance <br />because it was 36, ifthey had come in at 20 they wouldn't have had to ask for the variance, <br />what changes did they make in reducing it from 36 to 20 to hide the 20-foot wall of 825-feet. <br />Mr. Daly said that there is 120-feet between the buildings and there was always a decorative <br />wall there and they conceded at the last meeting at the will of the Commission in not having it <br />36-feet high, they have a waterfall in front of the 20-feet, a water wall fountain in the middle. <br />Charles Sieger, the Architect on the project, showed renderings ofthe project and Vice Mayor <br />Thaler said that there is no grading from Collins, and the berm goes up ten-feet on either side, <br />and it is relatively flatter then what you see at Ocean I, II, and III. Mr. Daly said the relative <br />difference that you will see is the driveway doesn't go up as high because the street is higher, <br /> <br />4 <br />