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<br />Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting November 17, 20 II
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<br />Sunny Isles Beach, Florida
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<br />motion sensors, an extinguishing system within the cab, there is a lot of technology that they
<br />have been working on for four years. In addition the generators will have the ability to
<br />operate this in case of power failures. DEP has already reviewed their storm surge, wave crust
<br />action, and they have given us approval and it is in the record that the erosion that occurs can
<br />work its wave under their regulations through the system. One of the other nuances is that the
<br />floor ofthis garage where the guest parking and mechanics are for the lifts are two-feet above
<br />the sidewalk, and so we don't have any subterranean conditions here which makes it safer in
<br />terms of storm and flood, the flood criteria is at elevation 8, and that is what that level is.
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<br />Commissioner Aelion asked about waiting in your car with the exhaust fumes, and Mr. Sieger
<br />said if the car is on, the elevator will not operate, and if you attempt to start it, the elevator
<br />will stop and there is a screen in the cab that tells you to turn your engine off, if you don't turn
<br />it off in 5 seconds it goes back down and ejects you automatically. In addition Miami-Dade
<br />County regulates elevators and they have requested that there are only three companies in the
<br />world that certifies safety, and one of the companies is called TUV and are based in Germany,
<br />they are going to do a third party assessment. They certify the safety of this elevator system as
<br />to hurricane preparedness, its operation, its inherent safety, its reliability, its maintenance.
<br />That report goes back to the County where six (6) elevator specialists will review it again.
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<br />Commissioner Aelion asked ifthe parts will be locally available, and Mr. Sieger said yes, the
<br />machinery will have spare parts in stock in America, and there will also be spare parts at
<br />WOHR, the company that makes the system, and Otis Elevator is a national company and all
<br />those parts are readily available, both companies are using and applying their stock systems
<br />that have worked for many years and combining them. Even though the idea is new, the
<br />actual mechanics and operations which are all UL Rated and safety tested have been in
<br />operation for many, many years, and so the real trick was combining them.
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<br />Commissioner Aelion asked the setback of the building from the coastline, according to the
<br />design and picture that you have on your rendering, that distance from the coastline has been
<br />satisfied according to the DEP, and Mr. Sieger said yes, and he showed him a picture and said
<br />the descriptive analysis that they had showed yesterday to the people at Millennium, and this
<br />is how they have basically situated their building as a good neighbor so they don't block
<br />Millennium's lateral views. If you look at their floor plans you will see that their views are
<br />actually tilted 45-degrees and so they don't block their views and more importantly, the
<br />second drawing has the coastal limits of the construction line. We are actually behind the line
<br />that we could put the building out to, and so it makes our building in terms of the scientific
<br />calculations of the erosion, the surge, etc, it makes their building safer by backing it up.
<br />Commissioner Aelion said in their appraisal, there is an Executive Sheet where you mention
<br />that the building is going to be 58 stories and not 57, and Mr. Sieger said there is a slight
<br />portion that goes into the 58th realm, the mechanical space is three stories tall on the western
<br />side, and on the eastern side is a little roof garden penthouse for the 10,000- foot unit.
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<br />Commissioner Scholl asked Gil Dezer how much did Porsche influence the design of the
<br />building and units, what was the tradeoff between architecture and design, and what was the
<br />bleed over between the two, and Gil Dezer said we have an architect here that has done a
<br />tremendous amount of buildings with a design idea, and then we have these gentlemen from
<br />Germany that really know how to design products that sell, but the idea was really to merge
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