2006 1214 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting December 14,2006 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida improved as quickly as they can, it is going to enhance their project, they need to contribute towards that effort and they have committed to $250,000.00 which will be paid prior to any Building Permit, to the City to be used for the enhancement of that street, whatever the City needs to use that for in enhancing that area, whether it is undergrounding the utility lines, whether it is paving, landscaping, they are committed in contributing towards that in the amount of $250,000.00; and 4) an additional commitment is to increase the handicapped parking spaces, they will convert as many of the 22 excess spaces as they can with not less than six (6) additional handicapped spaces. Vice Mayor Thaler asked if they have a color chip for them to see what the color of the building is, and Mr. Helfman said that the Architect can tell us what the color shades of the building are going to be although he does not have the actual chip. Mr. Yabor said that they have not gotten to design development yet and to the specifications, so they are having a vision right now and they are intending to work with the City as far as getting all the colors and the selection of the palette that they are going to use in the building. Vice Mayor Thaler said he thinks it should be noted that this will not be fully approved until a color is given to the staff to approve, and Mr. Helfman said that will be their final condition [Condition #5], that the entire color palette for the building will be approved by the Administration prior to the issuance of any Building Permit. Vice Mayor Thaler said that we are supposed to see a picture with and without TDRs and he has not seen that, and Mr. Yabor said the model shows a blue line and that indicates on the outside of the line the volume of building that would be removed without TDRs, noting that the formula ofTDRs and unit numbers is a little complicated, and that they still leave on the table an excess of 90,000 square feet that they are not using for the building use. Mayor Edelcup noted that RK Associates are located to the south of this property and that there is an open space between those buildings that our Town Center concept provides for future landscaping. He said it all depends when the property to the south gets developed then it would fit more into the Town Center plan that was approved four (4) years ago. He said the Town Center Overlay District provides for the type of structure that is being proposed here today, in fact that area really specified in our overall Comprehensive Plan that higher intensities could be provided in what is to be known as Town Center with open pedestrian plazas. He stated that he thinks what is being presented today conforms to what had been the plan almost four years ago when public hearings were held to discuss what Town Center would be like, and so it should not come as a surprise to any of the residents as to what is in the offering for the Town Center Development because it is precisely buildings like this and the buildings like St. Tropez that has already started at the south end at the marina, that everyone had in mind when Town Center Overlay District was put into place. City Manager Szerlag said that we are going to have a drainage project to take care of all the drainage problems on 172nd Street, and reconstruct the street with enhancements of sidewalks and lighting standards along 172nd Street that the City will hopefully begin later on this year. He said as far as Collins A venue is concerned, we spoke at the Commission level about having ultimately on the west side of Collins A venue, a 10- foot greenbelt access easement for a promenade, and we realize that we don't need to have symmetry to have continuity but we do want to have good streetscape along that promenade and the developer has indicated that in 4