2014-0116 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summare Minutes: Regular Cin Commission Meeting Januar 16. 2014 City of Sunny Isles Beach. Florida City Manager Russo said another issue that came up in our meeting and just speaking to the bigger categories of our discussion was an issue that dealt generally with a public safety issue. It was pretty much a pedestrian safety issue which we did say we were going to take up with the Police Chief. and see if there are some issues that we can at least clarify and possibly address over time. Nlayor Edelcup said in picking up on something you said, the transportation issue that may be something that can be added would be helping to form the bicycle path through the City. He knows that has become a hot topic item in the County particularly because of the accidents that have occurred on Key Biscayne. He knows from some residents that have come to visit him that they have had some problems here in their own City walking on the sidewalk and having bicyclists appear out of the blue behind them or even coming towards them. He thinks it will be helpful to add that as a topic that maybe the CAC can delve into and maybe give us some help in coming up of what would be the safest approach to having bicycles because the\, certainly will exist but have a safe route through the City. Mayor Edelcup said in picking up on something the City Manager said again. the role of the condos. Building Codes. and Code Enforcement in the Cite. There is a significant area of the City that has single family in it and perhaps we should also take an approach as to what the City's role is in residential neighborhoods as it relates again to Building Codes and also as to neighbor -to -neighbor issues. So that again, there is a special understanding in the community of what it is the City can and cannot do. not only at the condo level but even in the single—family home. He knows that former Commissioner Danny Iglesias lives in a townhouse area and so you are right in the middle of that exposure of quayside single family. quayside condo situations. It would be helpful if all the areas in our City got talked through as to what the role of our City is in each of those areas. Dana Goldman. Chairperson ofthe City Advisory Committee, said she is keenly interested in condominium issues because of the density ofour condominium population. Something that is near and dear to her heart personally and professionally. We anticipate inaugurating our condominium workshop series, and we would like to do it first on a quarterly basis. We have had some preliminary discussions with Building Official Clay Parker and his team as a start with the 40 -year certification but obviously we want to expand that. She said that she thinks it is a good recommendation to also incorporate residential single-family. One of the topics that was presented along the way by the CAC was rental type restrictions and rental occupancy. Maybe we can tack that on and start in that area, and obviously if it gets bigger we can talk about a different venue. But in where we conduct our meetings and start them on a quarterly basis and see how it goes. If it becomes something that is popular and well attended then we can do it on a bi-monthly basis. Commissioner Scholl said he is following in the Mayor's footsteps in this one is that there seems to be a lot of ambiguity about where the City's authority begins and ends, and it is very circumstantial because when somebody has a problem they want us to have authority. \Vhen they are not haying a problem they don`t want us to have authority. Or we are exercising authority and they feel the\, don't have a problem, it is a different situation. He thinks it is great that the CAC gets involved in these things and kind of slices and dices a lot of them because you are more grass roots in some ways and can help bridge that gap a little 4