2013-1017 Regular City Commission Meeting (2)

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting October 17. 2013 City of sunny Isles Beach. Florida residents come in and park. Commissioner Gatto said you will be charging for parking, and Mr. Dezer said correct, along the same lines of what the City is charging. Commissioner Gatto said she was curious about the staging when you start construction as she knows it is a tight spot and she asked if they had anv ideas of how they are going to stage cranes. trucks. etc.? Mr. Dezer said not vet, this is a conversation that we will have with the General Contractor ( "GC ") but as you can see on the rendering, the building in a way is actually two buildings in of itself. You have the small section in the front which is the bank center, and then you have the garage and the tower, and so they can be started at different times. The pilings will go in at the same time but the front part of the building can be started at a later date and so it gives you the front area to do staging, and once the building is going up we don't need it. Commissioner Gatto asked if he had an idea of what bank may be going in there, and Mr. Dezer said they had Citi Bank involved, and it is kudos to Sunny Isles Beach that every single bank wants to have a branch right here on Collins Avenue because of the vision of the City in allowing us to build these big buildings and bringing in the clientele that the banks want. Mayor Edelcup said he would like them to work with our City staff as it relates to the parking, and also to the situation on Atlantic Boulevard. He knows that the rear entrance that is there, even though you want them to use Collins Avenue, you also indicated that some people will be trying to use Atlantic Boulevard. From 8:00 to 9:00 in the morning, and at 3:00 in the afternoon, that street is basically closed off. He does not want to be sitting here. and he doesn't want the next Commission to be sitting here a year from now trying to figure out how this is going to work together. We need to have something like a `operating policy" come together that would include our City Manager, our Police Department and probably encompassing the School Principal. The School was the first one there and the priority is for the school traffic to get through there. He does not want to be in a situation later trying to redirect the flow of traffic to accommodate the fact now that we have now built an office building next door, and it impacts some other side street because we have to reroute school traffic. He wants to state upfront that he does not ever want to consider rerouting the school traffic and so we have to make that traffic a priority and the entrance on Atlantic Boulevard a secondary with you, and whether that is an operating procedure or rules of parking in that area he just thinks we need to address it now. Mr. Dezer said he agrees and because of that when we designed the tower itself we looked at how the flow goes, and in 99 out of 100 cases, especially between 8:00 and 9:00 a.m. when there will be the business owners and tenants arriving, not necessarily their guests, but they will be coming off from Collins Avenue right up the ramp to the parking and so there is no reason for them to drive through whatsoever. Mayor Edelcup said that is what we are saying but the question is will they when the time comes? Mr. Dezer said the way we are designing it, it is just for that and there would be no reason for them to go through that traffic. Mayor Edelcup said right but he just thinks that we need to develop that policy now so that we are not fighting that battle later on. City Attorney Ottinot said what we can take from that is maybe a condition where the Applicant agrees to work with the City Manager's staff on the parking egress solution with respect to Atlantic Boulevard, especially in the morning, and that would be a condition. There is one more condition that the Applicant has agreed to from our IT Director where if the Applicant's building impacts our communications facility on the roof. the Applicant has agreed to relocate it in a place designated by the City Manager or designee. City Manager 15