2005 0628 Local Planning Agency Meeting

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Summary Minutes Local Planning Agency Meeting June 28, 2005 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida municipalities, various State agencies, as well as other County agencies to come and participate in the Scoping Meeting, and at that time a list of issues were identified by consensus by the group that was there. She said that some of the issues that were brought up at that time are in the introductory portions ofthis document on pages 3 and 4, and what they subsequently did was to group the issues together by title to be addressed in the EAR: 1) Land Development; 2) Transportation Improvements; 3) Intergovernmental Coordination; 4) Affordable Housing; and 5) Mission Statement. Ms. Eichner said that we take all of those issues, and some of those issues cut across various elements within the Comprehensive Plan and we will be preparing the analysis and how they can impact. She noted that the Draft EAR before the Commission is almost like a wish list, looking inward to say how did we do, it is not an action document, there are no changes to Codes, no comprehensive plan amendments that are going to be done right now. She said once the EAR is finally adopted and the issues are sorted through, the next step in this planning process is to then bring forth amendments to the Comprehensive Plan that will deal with all of these issues that have been raised as part of the City's EAR, so this is almost like what have we done, where can we go to do better type of document, and the next step would actually implement on how we are going to get there. Ms. Eichner said in the other parts of EAR is delving into a little bit more detail in each of these issues and really defining the issue, how does the past compare with the present, did the issue come up on its own or is it the result of changing demographics, the change in population, additional traffic, or is it the result of other government regulations or issues, and that is what Chapter 2 goes through, dealing with those local issues and how we are doing and what has changed in the past several years. She noted that there is a brief analysis of what the City could do to reach those goals in terms of identifying those issues. Ms. Eichner said that another component to this document is also to go through those pertinent objectives within the Comprehensive Plan and it begins on page 16, where you identify the objective of the Plan, what the target was of that objective, what the conditions were in the City when the Plan was adopted, and what are the current conditions which then leads to a comment section, is everything the same, it was okay then its okay now, we don't need to do anything or deal with that objective, and so we go through a whole series of that kind of analysis on pages 16 through 27. She said in terms of analyzing some of the issues, we need to look at future population estimates, as well as changes in the population, the population of the City has grown, the amount of vacant acres ofland in the City has drastically decreased, so essentially the City is for the most part built out in terms of vacant land, but we still know that more people are coming in all of those condos that we see going up. She said those kinds of population growth in housing also puts demands on infrastructure, being water, sewer, drainage, roads, and there are some preliminary analysis with respect to those items to see if the City can keep up both in the terms of the existing infrastructure in addition to the taxes that will be coming into the Capital Improvement Plan to really plan for the future. She noted that they have then gone through an analysis in terms oflocation of development and there are several tables dealing with the number of units that are on line, what's coming in. 2