2005 0714 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting July 14,2005 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida there is less berm because there is not as much grade transition from the lobby which is 11 and the street is 8, so there is a three-foot difference, different then Ocean II which is probably a ten-foot difference, it will be fully landscaped and architecturally treated. He said the buildings and the garage set back 75-feet as it does at Ocean I, II, and III. Commissioner Iglesias said that this took place of four developments, La Playa de Varadero I, La Playa de Varadero II, the old Fountainhead Hotel, and the Rivera which at that time if you added, you are looking at 11 conflict points of driveways, you have now reduced it to six, no matter what we approve here, you still have to go to FDOT to get the watering driveway permits, so as these buildings go up they do become safer because your point of conflict for pedestrian crossing reduces. Dr. Joel Frank asked about possible temporary beach access and Mr. Vera said that currently he is working with the Fantasy of the Ocean and he should be getting temporary beach access through the Fantasy of the Ocean in a couple of months. Dr. Frank said that their concern is sand, and asked if they can have overhead showers, foot showers, a water fountain, and lighting, and he commended Tom Daly. Joyce Lerner asked about getting crosswalk lights that count down how much time is left to get across the street. Mayor Ede1cup said that there is a light like that as an experiment on 1 74th Street where the numbers go down, and it is their intent to put these throughout the City. Commissioner Iglesias said as far as timing it is monitored by the County. He said they are going into the older user program where the pavement striping is bigger and they are putting pedestrian timing, and he suggested that perhaps the Mayor can put that in his letter to FDOT to include this location. City Manager Russo said that we were part of an FDOT experiment at 1 74th Street where they installed those types of countdown, and one ofthe other things that we did is put narrow signs on all the poles next to every crosswalk in the City to explain the hand that turns from white to flashing red, which is the pre-warning to the stop, and when it goes to solid you still have a couple of seconds before the light turns. Mr. Goldstein reminded the Commission that there is a 10,000 square-foot oceanfront park being proposed here. Mr. Daly said the light issue is important to the community and noted that there is a park crossing in Hallandale just south of Beach Club and there is a different traffic pattern, it is entirely a pedestrian crossing that FDOT allows a longer stop. He said that he had committed to the Arlen House people that within 30-days subject to permitting, they would open a beach access on the south of the property and he is willing to do that and would do it immediately if that is the will of the Commission and the Commission said yes. Mayor Ede1cup acknowledged Gil Dezer in the audience as one of the partners in this development. Commissioner Goodman noted that he may have to use the ex-parte as he spoke with Irving Diamond on the telephone as he did not attend the public meeting and he asked him what happened and he told him what happened at the meeting only. Commissioner Iglesias moved and Vice Mayor Thaler seconded a motion for approval, subject to staff conditions as modified, and that the developer will provide a temporary beach access, bathroom, showers, and all items discussed above. Resolution No. 05-Z- 5