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 Goodman said he understands that but would like to get a ruling so if we start at the beginning and work from 1979 up until we became a City, that is the important step. Mayor Edelcup said this has nothing to do with the EAR report but it is a legitimate question and needs research and to bring it up at a regular Commission meeting. City Attorney Ottinot said he would look at the zoning history with respect to the legal issues. Mr. Aelion agreed with the Mayor's suggestion for monuments or landmarks to be put in the different entrances of the areas, especially on 174th Street for Winston Towers. He said he met the Mayor about three or four weeks ago and talked about an idea that the park that is now part of the master complex association which is the Winston Towers Park, is not subject to contravention management but since the City doesn't have an historic park and this being the only park that was prior to the inception of the City. He said he has learned that 174th Street used to be the Air Force strip from the Florida Air Force Base in World War II, so since the park is adjacent to that road which is now 174th Street, it can be considered a park and a monument established thereof. He said the main thrust of this reasoning is to form a committee to study the possibility of giving the park to the City however, not only with the condition that this would remain a park for evermore, but also to ease the minds of many people who doubt and are afraid that in the future this Commission as it sits today is a very noble Commission but tomorrow we never know, is that it becomes some sort of historic park so it would make it very difficult for any future body to do anything else but to leave it as a Park. Mayor Edelcup said that Mr. Aelion's remarks on the historic park may be addressed to the Historic Preservation Board at their next meeting. He said if the Winston Tower people themselves want to form a committee to look at whether or not they want to give that park to the City as an historic park, that is something that the complex needs to determine and we can't really get involved in it. Commissioner Goodman said he did a little research on it and he got from the City that the value of that land was used up when the seven buildings of Winston Towers was built and they cannot ever put a building on that land. Mr. Aelion said that this has to do with the Comprehensive Plan, nothing is written in stone, there is always the danger that modifications to the Code may happen. Mayor Edelcup said if it is given to the City in some form as a park, under State law it remains a park forever. Commissioner Brezin said that at the present time this is private property belonging to the complex and therefore the way it stands now it is not a City decision, but as the Mayor indicated, this would be a decision that would be made by the respective buildings of the Winston Towers, and if that decision is made, then it would be put before the City to accept. Mr. Aelion said at this point they just want to entertain the notion ofthe City at least being in the position to accept it, if and when. Mayor Edelcup and the Commission said they would be receptive to something being presented to them. Commissioner Goodman said since he brought it up as a memorial from World War II because it was used as a site for military here. Mr. Aelion said that it has been documented that many air force pilots that left this street and went to the carriers, many of them never came back. Commissioner Goodman said he would like some documentation on that as he never knew this. Mayor Edelcup said that in our EAR review we should have something in there to discuss parking and structural parking throughout the City. He said that one of the City's goals should be to have either a public or public/private parking garage concept developed. Ms. Eichner 6