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 Ms. Eichner said that schools are another issue and have pointed out the need for the City's desire to have a school located in the City and have also explained at this initial stage that the City has been working very closely with the School Board to locate a school and construct a school within the City. She said that the City is ahead of the curve because with the new growth management legislation that was just signed into law last week, one of those issues is school concurrency, that the State wants to see before development can be approved that schools are in place, and the City has already started its negotiations and discussions with the School Board to locate a school in the City, and that is the very kind of thing that this EAR is designed to do. Ms. Eichner noted that on page 44 is an analysis of the successes and the shortcomings of each element of the Comprehensive Plan, and a lot of it has already been done, and there really are no problems because the City has already carried out the goals ofthe Plan. She said that some things they have no comments on that they are not even going to address such as the conservation element, everything is fine, the natural lands are being protected, and we really don't need to deal with that issue, that element we probably won't even touch but many of the other elements we are. Ms. Eichner noted on page 54, Chapter Five, which is the conclusion and proposed revisions, this is in conjunction with everything that is in the report, this is where we see some possible potential revisions to the Comprehensive Plan. She said the rest of the document deals with changes to State Statute from an historical perspective as it relates to our land use and growth management. Ms. Eichner said that the next step in the process after today is to transmit this draft to the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) in Tallahassee whereby they will have 30-days to informally review the draft and offer comments and suggestions that they may have as we go through the process towards the final adoption. She said we should get that document by Statute within 30-days, which would take us to the end of July, and that would leave us with August and September to prepare the final draft for the City to adopt by October 1 st which is the statutory deadline established by the State. Ms. Eichner then asked for any comments or additions from the Commission. Commissioner Brezin addressed the Mission Statement, whereby she just received the revised document and noticed that there were changes in page 16 of the old document, and Ms. Eichner said that the old document was the draft of the draft because we were on this tight schedule to get to today with people going on vacation and issues of a quorum, and meeting the deadlines as far as transmitting this, what went out was a draft draft. Commissioner Brezin said there were several things that were eliminated in the Mission Statement, particularly in section 6, and she would like to see that in the new draft. City Manager Russo clarified that the only changes that were made were factual corrections, nothing was changed substantively, they did not take anything out ofthe document, and what Commissioner Brezin is referring to should not have been in there to begin with. He said that was a section on the Mission Statement is the basis, that is a statement that is created by the Elected Officials and the community, that gets translated through. He said what would ultimately be a strategic plan of which the whole development issue is a key component of, that gets translated down into the business plan of the community for which those specific sections that those points are really part of what goes into the implementation on the administrative side as to opposed to what the process is to create the Mission Statement, that detail is important as we get through the Mission Statement, but that is not part ofthe Comprehensive Plan and that is why that was 3