2015-0416 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting April 16,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida we doing this? Florida Statutes requires that every seven (7) years that the Comprehensive Plan be updated. We are now in the second time around. We are looking at the documents, looking at the goals, objectives,and policies,updating where it may be needing updating,and making sure that the City is in compliance with all Statutory Regulations of the State. Alex David said they are looking at the existing Comprehensive Plan as stated, and meeting with staff. They are proposing several Town Hall Meetings so that citizens can come and speak and address their comments in the updated document. After that we will compile everything and bring it to the Commission, and then transmit it to the State for their review and comment. Once we get it back from the State, we bring it back to the Commission and the amendments will finally be adopted by the City Commission. As part of the second phase of this presentation, transportation is a big issue and that is one of the things we are going to be really focusing on in their update,the transportation aspects. If they are approved tonight they will start reviewing the current document, look for what needs to be changed, look at background data, gather data, meet with the elected officials and staff, conduct the Town Hall Meetings in the summer through September. Prepare the documents at the end of the year and then begin the adoption process, and have this wrapped up in one year. Commissioner Aelion said you must have been briefed on the traffic situation that we have now and one of the main thrusts that we have,the current status of our traffic,the data on that should precede the report or the study of Comprehensive Plan. The status of our traffic today and its results should not take as long as the first phase, and Alex David said he will clarify that part of it. Yes, the Evaluation and Appraisal Report will take a year but Joe Corradino is under the gun to get the transportation pan done within six (6) or seven (7) months, and so you are correct. Nothing will get transmitted to the Commission for final review until the transportation part is done because that is very important and it will be part of our main document. Commissioner Levin stated as Stanley Price said earlier, we have a box of development rights, in laymen's terms, how will what you do affect the City? In other words, could your analysis potentially show that we should not have TDRs and things alone those lines? City Attorney Ottinot said yes,and he asked Mr. David to provide to the Commission the previous update and what was changed so that at least they will have an education and background on it. With respect to density, intensity, and land use, there is a legal review that he will be involved in with Mr. David, and so any change that has legal implications they will have to work with him to make sure that any changes must meet compliance,and mitigate to the City with respect to the TDRs that were originally adopted when the First Coniprehensive Plan in terms of the projects to use. Police is one, in addition density and intensify, those issues are very green in the Comp Plan and they have labor implications and so we can talk about it. Commissioner Levin said what if you look at it and say we need 12 lanes on Collins Avenue, how do we work around those things, what is your assessment going to reveal to us in regards to transportation? She just wants to get an overall feeling of what we can expect. Alex David said we can't focus on roads anymore because you are not expanding Collins Avenue and so what are alternative modes of transportation, bike, pedestrian, mass transit, certain things like that and so that is what we will be focused on. And then as the Commissioner noted, on all the traffic in and out, north and south of here. Commissioner 2a