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 they know some of our problems and when we go to them they should listen to us because it is in our City. Vice Mayor Thaler said in the affordable housing area, he doesn't feel that we have what half of what that is based on what has been happening in Sunny isles Beach and which is now becoming a condominium and some ofthe affordable housing has been in Sunny Isles Beach and we should keep our eye on it and put a little more detail into where we want to go in the future in the affordable housing area. Ms. Eichner reassured Vice Mayor Thaler that Tallahassee will absolutely positively and without a doubt require the City to closely look at affordable housing, it is the hot issue, and she would hazard to guess that of any of the comments that come back on the Draft EAR the affordable housing issue will be top on the list in Tallahassee, so we will certainly be dealing with it, analyzing it, and will have to come up with policies and an analysis of the affordable housing issue within the City. Vice Mayor Thaler said every meeting he has gone to including Broward and Palm Beach Counties affordable housing has been brought up but we should continue to look at it and put it on the forefront of our policy, and Ms. Eichner said it is on the forefront. Mayor Edelcup said he would like to see something in the EAR that shows some ofthe other things that we have been able to accomplish over the last five years and one ofthose is the Art in Public Place, Private Place concept that the City has put through in the area where you are talking about in our concepts of architecture and culture, and the other is that the City created an Historic Preservation Board. He said that there is a provision that got talked about in the original Comprehensive Plan that is for neighborhood or village identification throughout the City and those who are familiar with the old Streetscape Plan which provided for monuments or markers to be placed along Collins A venue adjacent to the various neighborhoods, the neighborhoods being either the Arlen House area, the Kings Point area, Poinciana Island, Atlantic Isle, Winston Towers, Golden Shores, each of those areas were to have some sort of specific local identification and he would like to see that somehow wrapped into this Plan. Mayor Edelcup said those, other then the corrective errors that he had mentioned to Ms. Eichner prior to this meeting on specific pages that she can take care of, are the sum of his comments, and he opened the public hearing. 5. PUBLIC HEARING Action: Isaac Aelion said that he was concerned about the commercial building within the Winston Towers complex at 17395 North Bay Road. He said an opinion by the County dated September 4, 1979 and issued by Chester C. Czebrinski, Assistant Director, Building and Zoning Department, specifically stipulates that following hearings and files and regulations, etc., that particular area which the Commission established under the DU-l Commercial setting, was to benefit the residents ofthe Winston Towers Complex area. He forwarded the opinion to the City Clerk for the records. He said that there are rumors that the present owners of this commercial property may consider elimination of such property to be replaced by a condominium. Commissioner Goodman asked if we are bound by Miami-Dade County's 1979 zoning plan or does our zoning plan that we have for the west side of Collins A venue take precedent. Mr. Aelion said the Master Plan envisioned the population multiplied by the seven buildings and the units and the density was not to encompass any other building area. Commissioner 5