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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting April 16,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida <br /> development rights takes rights from one property and transfers it to another. It doesn't <br /> increase the development rights; it just transfers rights that exist to another piece of property, <br /> and that is what was done here. It was interesting to note that we heard from Ocean II.Trump, <br /> and noted that all of these buildings were built under the same basic principle and he believes <br /> that Ocean 1I had a series of variances attached to their approval. To get up now and say that if <br /> you abide by the same set of rules that have been in existence here, that is not fair. It has also <br /> been reviewed by professional people in the State of Florida and your local Planning staff He <br /> also indicated that people do not evacuate all at once if a hurricane is coming; we have a <br /> sophisticated system now that we know several days in advance and all warnings go up telling <br /> people that if a hurricane is on its way you have "x" amount of time to vacate an area. South <br /> Florida does have traffic but that is the price you pay for living in an urban environment. We <br /> abide by every single regulation in your Zoning Code, we are not asking for anything that <br /> anybody else is not entitled to ask for. By buying these additional development rights we are <br /> taking away development rights that exists on other properties both privately owned by his <br /> client and also owned by the City. By the end of the day if this City had a total accumulation <br /> of one million square feet to distribute all over the City;there is not one square foot of increase <br /> as a result of the TDRs because it comes off from one property and transfer to the other. This <br /> is a project that the City should be very proud of. <br /> Commissioner Goldman commended the Architect and the developer for an aesthetically <br /> beautiful very visually appealing project. She noted that these are all valet parking,you have a <br /> lift and she asked what the width of spaces are,what is the standard for the parking spaces,and <br /> what safeguards do we have? Ms. Hasbun said the standard parking spaces is 9 feet by 18 <br /> feet; regarding the mechanical spaces we don't have a clear definition of the Code about the <br /> width of those. For the size of these spaces, the plan is showing 8 feet 6 inches in width. <br /> Commissioner Aelion said as a note of clarification;the north and south plans,the building is <br /> 45 degrees, the schematics show a perpendicular north and south rendering, the status of the <br /> building against either the Ocean or Collins Avenue and your color rendering is showing an <br /> angular thing of 30 degrees or 25 on the north and south, so which is it, is it the schematics or <br /> the rendering? Mr. Siegel said both, it starts to rotate out. It is not parallel to the parking, <br /> what happens is as it proceeds it rotates out until it parallels. Commissioner Aelion said we <br /> heard about the issue of traffic and we are concerned about it. We have given staff the green <br /> light to do a Comprehensive Study on Traffic. Traffic can be something of a deceiving <br /> impression, first of all it is a fact that over 70%of the traffic is throughway traffic. We have <br /> commercial plazas in Sunny Isles Beach compared to the north and south municipalities,much <br /> less traffic in Golden Beach and Hallandale Beach to a certain point and Bal Harbour on the <br /> south, and Hollywood is being built very fast on the beach also high-rises, etc. It is not so <br /> much the built of residential so much as the commercial from 163rd to 193rd we have <br /> commercial in and out traffic which the other municipalities don't have, and so we have to <br /> take that into consideration as well and try to find solutions for that. We also have 1.1 million <br /> tourists coming to our City every year that have nothing to do with the actual residents, they <br /> have an impact and the buildings being built on the east side are normally filled and that hasn't <br /> changed. With that said, the concern about the impact of traffic, I wouldn't be so quick to <br /> conclude that the additional builds should not be alarming to the degree making it something <br /> very urgent. As far as the sun and its effect on the beach, it is equitable along our east side it <br /> has been in the Comprehensive Plan since 1999, it was calculated by the way,because people <br /> 10 <br />