2014-1218 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting December 18,2014 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida to be a center, a home for the community, not just to be on the bottom floor of a condominium. To be a free standing home for the community where people can get married, go to school, etc. But if we were to take two pieces of land and he knows they can do that without purchasing TDRs,and each unit could be about 1,700 square feet per unit. So when you talk about 22 units and exceed the Code by 30 feet higher and it would permit them to build a Community Center,in the long run this project here is so much better and beneficial to the City. Commissioner Levin asked then if the Community Center would be available to the whole community, and Rabbi Kaller said yes. Commissioner Levin asked what he expected to have at the Community Center,are you going to have a room that someone can rent it and use it, or is it going to be strictly for the Chabad? Rabbi Kaller said it is open to the entire community and the Community Center would have a ritual bath and make a beautiful spa. There will be a beautiful restaurant, a preschool, there is no formal membership for the Chabad,anybody can walk in and anybody is welcome. There will also be a ballroom,as well as an area for educational programs which are open to anyone that wishes to come in and are welcome. Commissioner Goldman asked for a clarification, she is under the impression from these renderings that the next building over is 200. Can you just give her the table of what is built there so we can put it in full perspective. City Planner Hasbun said you will have the 500 which is the corner lot where we are seeking the height variance, that one will be 325 feet high. Then you will have the Tower for the Jewish Community Center which will be 75 feet in height,and then you have the 400 which is combined of the Pedestal and two towers,those are 201 feet,then you have the Miami-Dade Water Sewer,and then the Park Towers at 290 on the east side. You are looking at 325, 75, and 200 feet. Commissioner Goldman said the easement, the water taxi, that is part of that also. Ms. Hasbun said we have not worked out exactly the specifics but it is embedded in one of the conditions of the Resolution. The boardwalk in the back is a requirement as well which will tie into the 400 Sunny Isles Boulevard Project,and so we will have a baywalk essentially from Collins Avenue,the initial St. Tropez projects, all the way to 500 Sunny Isles Boulevard. Commissioner Levin moved and Commissioner Gatto seconded a motion for approval, subject to staff conditions. Resolution No. 14-Z-149 was adopted by a roll call vote of 4- 0-1 [Mayor Scholl abstained] in favor. Vote: Commissioner Gatto yes Commissioner Goldman yes Commissioner Levin yes Vice Mayor Aelion yes Mayor Scholl abstained [City Clerk's Note: Vice Mayor Aelion passed the gavel back to Mayor Scholl, and the Commission took a five-minute break after this item.] 9