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<br />- <br /> <br />Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting August 16,2007 <br /> <br />City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida <br /> <br />straight condo units, for more than that period oftime. He said they will report to the City on <br />a yearly basis and provide them with the books and records showing the time of stay so the <br />City can monitor that. He stated that Fairmont will be operating this hotel for 50 years, it will <br />have a front desk, a bell desk, maid service, room service, and it will be a 5-diamond hotel. <br />Mr. Schulman asked that the staff report be incorporated into the record. <br /> <br />Steve Trattner said his concern for the future is the additional traffic this will cause as the new <br />school will be built, and he is concerned about the children's safety at the intersection at 185th <br />Street as it is a very dangerous intersection. Mr. Schulman said that they are not asking to <br />increase the parking in that lot, right now that parking lot has been approved for 90 spaces, <br />and they are reducing it to 85 spaces, so there will not be more traffic generated by that lot. <br />He said the use of that lot is essential for the design and operation of this facility, in order to <br />meet the setbacks, etc., they have to move the cars off from that building and over to the off- <br />site lot that they have been utilizing for 20 years, and iffor whatever reason this project is not <br />approved, that lot will continue to be used for 90 parking spaces, valet, in conjunction with <br />the Beach Club. He said the valets have been the subject of citizen's complaints, there will be <br />no more valet, there will be a secured gate, and they will be creating a landscaped wall <br />between them and the Golden Shores neighborhood, which presently does not exist. <br /> <br />Mr. Schulman said that they meet all the parking requirements and exceed that of the City <br />Code for the uses that are there, and in addition, they have another Club a few minutes away <br />where they have people who golf, eat, various Club activities and they wish to come to the <br />beach, so they have an already existing service of five (5) vehicles that go back and forth from <br />the Club to the Beach Club and they are capable of controlling how many of those they need. <br />Mr. Schulman said they only needed eight (8) handicapped parking spaces and that is what <br />they provided, but they are going to be providing three (3) additional handicapped parking <br />spaces, so they will have a total of eleven (II) handicapped parking spaces. <br /> <br />Commissioner Goodman said that the building is set back 75-feet from Collins A venue but it <br />is a garage and he doesn't like garages on Collins Avenue. Mr. Schulman said that the <br />pedestal is set back 75-feet, it is the lowest part of the building, and the Tower is set back <br />about 150 feet. He said there is a 40-foot high waterfall with mosaics on either side of it <br />falling into two ponds creating a second waterfall, there is parking behind that waterfall. <br /> <br />Vice Mayor Thaler said when you go through your numbers you will see you are one parking <br />spot short, and Mr. Schulman said if they are they will solve that problem. Vice Mayor Thaler <br />said his problem is not really with the building. He said that he thinks at a first-class building <br />all the parking should be within the building itself, it should not be where somebody has to <br />walk across the street and endanger not only themselves but also the drivers coming down <br />Collins Avenue. He said where Mr. Schulman is saying that they are using it now, he goes <br />past that spot almost every day and it is rarely every used, and now your 85 spots will be used <br />100% every day, so the usage will be substantially more. He said you have a problem in that <br />corner right now without increasing the traffic as that is the only way people in Golden Shores <br />can get out of their community to go north with a light, and you will be creating more noise in <br />the area. Vice Mayor Thaler said the low lighting is a non-descript lighting, but in that case <br />our Police force will wind up having a bigger problem, with more people trying to break into <br />the cars. He said there will be more traffic with the kids trying to get to school and they will <br /> <br />4 <br />