2006 0411 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting April II, 2006 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida Commissioner Goodman asked if they have to go to the City Manager to ask permission to work or can they just go in there and work and not make noise, and City Manager Szerlag said they have to come in and ask staff to fill out a form that will be submitted by listing their activities and the building contractor must adhere to it. Assistant City Manager Vera noted that outside waivers, as far as large concrete foundation pours that take 24-hours are concerned, we will give waivers on those, and City Manager Szerlag said that is covered in his memo that concrete pours will be eligible for a waiver one time per project, and that it would require a ten-day notice by the applicant. Vice Mayor Brezin said if they are working in the internal portion of the building and they are doing an activity like painting which would not disturb anyone, as well as quiet plastering, things of that nature, that would be consistent with the quiet noise, and they can do that without consulting with the City. City Manager Szerlag said some activities that we think will not cause excessive noise as Vice Mayor Brezin mentioned, painting, plastering, and cleanup materials, drywall finish, etc., and Commissioner Goodman stated that they have to come to the City to ask to work after hours to get a permit or permission, and City Manager Szerlag said yes. City Attorney Ottinot said for clarification that the ordinance does provide a 150-foot notice requirement, under the waiver provision developers have to provide abutting property owners within 150-feet, notice that they were granted a waiver, and that will be complied to. Mayor Edelcup said we want to be fair to everyone and certainly the notice requirements, and he knows that the City Manager will do his utmost to make sure that proper notice gets out to everybody. Mayor Edelcup said as it relates to the time of construction, we went through a series of meetings on this and at the first meeting they were comparing other cities and ourselves during construction times as to what times were permitted in our city versus other cities, and that this ordinance is nothing more then conforming with the majority of other cities in Miami-Dade County. Mayor Edelcup said as to the traffic problem, and again the City Manager has been working not only with our own staff but with FDOT to see if we can alleviate some of the problems that we have had in traffic backing up. He said the easiest approach to this matter is that there is always going to be inconvenience when construction is going on, the better part of valor is lets try to get it over as quickly as we can, and also at the same time being reasonable to our residents so that we are not disturbing them in the evening or early in the morning. He said we have tried to balance everything in the City to come up with an ordinance that basically gives a little to everybody. City Manager Szerlag said as to traffic issues, we all agree that lane closures are not in place to stage construction, they are in place to have essentially construction activity that the site cannot accommodate, primarily concrete pours. He said with the exception of massive pours and other construction activities for dropping off material, we are going to strive to have lanes closed only from 9:00 a.m. to 3 :00 p.m. He said that they have met with FDOT who indicated that they will allow the City to have input in the lane closure application process, and we all agreed that there will never be two lanes closed in one direction again on Collins Avenue. 6