2014-0116 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summar Minutes- Reeular Cit' commission Meetine Januar 16. 2014 City of Sunnv Isles Beach. Florida bit. But he knows that with his own neighbors the rental issue is a big deal, they really feel that we should have Code Enforcement people knocking on people's doors and proving whether they live there or not. When someone says it is my cousin or uncle whatever, you know they are going to lie and so this is a big issue. He is sure it is a bie issue in the condominiums as well, you know, when you have rules in the condos. But where does our authority begin and end, and where do our residents want our authority to begin and end because we may have authority sometimes that folks don't want us to exercise it. He has been very impressed with the work the CAC is doing. He thinks the CAC in general under Dana's leadership and the makeup that is there now, that they are getting some traction which is great and he knows it is not easy. Chairperson Goldman asked if it is an issue that citizens. condo unit owners come to you and say solve this problem and you can't solve the problem because it is an issue for another agency and they come back and if you are not in compliance, they don't have jurisdiction or because it is not an arbitrate, is that kind of what you are saying? Commissioner Scholl said exactly. sometimes we can prevent the problem if we follow our LDRs and we are careful when we are approving these projects. People will get aggravated over parking in a condo situation, they come to us and say why can't you fix our parking. Well, we shouldn't be approving buildings that have marginal or inadequate parking and so he thinks that we are well aware of that now. We are much more cognizant of that and the greatest example of that is LaPerla because LaPerla was approved and basically it should not have been approved that way. The policy at the time allowed it to be approved and it has been a nightmare ever since for those residents. Then they come back to us and say this was presented this way, why can't you make it go away? We don't own that park and there are reasons we can't do that. We have worked with LaPerla very closely and so a lot of times we try but we don't have the authority to effectuate the change that people are looking for. Chairperson Goldman asked when you feel these inquiries is there somebody in the City that actually gets them, or is there some repository, is there some person those calls go to or is it just kind of diffused and we don't really know? Commissioner Scholl said the City Manager usually gets them. Mayor Edelcup said generally they start by calling the \Mayor or one of the Commissioners. and then it may get referred to the City Manager or the City Attorney depending upon the issue. Sometimes it is one of those issues, again, that the City can't resolve. It may be a dispute between two neighbors that they want the City to take some son of Police action which Nye are not capable of doing but the residents don't understand that, they think that is what we are here for. So we have to sit down with them and explain to them what our role is in those kinds of situations. Sometimes they may have to seek their own attorneys if they have a dispute rather then expect the City to intervene on somebody's behalf. On something that Commission Scholl said. when we approved those early projects there was not enough parking in the buildings and that message got through to us and we changed our Ordinance to provide for requiring two (2) parking spaces where in the past it was 1 '/ spaces. If the CAC had been involved in it he thinks we would have been hearing it through you. There may be things that we get through you that again gives us rise to review our Building Codes and make appropriate changes. Commissioner Scholl said how he is coming at it is that even though we may not have authority over something doesn't mean that it shouldn't get voiced for it where you see a