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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting April 16,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida <br /> community that they haven't had before. Tonight they are requesting to reduce units from 329 <br /> to 320 because the City's future residents are looking for bigger units as they are not satisfied <br /> with 2,500 square feet, they are looking for more like 5,000 square feet. Phase III property <br /> will have to be used for part of the staging of Parque Towers due to the tightness of the area <br /> but they see that in the overall schedule it will not delay the construction of the office building. <br /> It will probably be finished in the same timeframe of about two (2) years. <br /> Architect Eduardo Castineira presented renderings of the proposed project. He said the main <br /> issue is that there was a technicality overlooked in the Resolution on the i7-foot Boardwalk. <br /> The building was presented prior, and everything with the Boardwalk is still the same way, it <br /> has not changed in any aspect. There are certain areas in the project where we definitely <br /> cannot achieve the seven (7) feet and we have other ideas and things that we intend to <br /> implement to correct those situations to make it much better. Right now we are really affected <br /> by Phase III which is the office building right off from Collins Avenue into Phase II which is <br /> the Parque Towers. The commencement of the Boardwalk starts right at Collins Avenue,and <br /> there is a small plaza which the City and staff specified that it needed to be ten(10) feet wide <br /> and a certain amount of depth to make it comfortable for people to come in and start <br /> experiencing that Boardwalk, and they made sure that was met. There is a ten (10) foot wide <br /> entrance feature, there is also an intent to do an architectural entrance feature and he presented <br /> a concept sketch based on the typical garden-type trellis modernized with metal and a material <br /> that will at night be illuminated within that will capture signage, the City's emblem, some <br /> wording, and the entrance to the whole Boardwalk. It was important' that it had to be <br /> something of height and some degree of importance as people walk through this gateway onto <br /> the Boardwalk. It is all framed with a landscape, the idea was to use for example the back wall <br /> of the office building where we are promoting the green wall. That area lacks a bit of <br /> landscaping and so they want to make sure they introduce a lot of green there so it becomes <br /> softer, more appealing. Once a person passes that area then we are left with this whole stretch <br /> of Boardwalk along the office building. The seawall is already there, it is already built. In our <br /> building we tied into the corner of the St. Tropez. This was talked about in the previous <br /> presentation. We have such a narrow lot that the ramping system that we need to circulate in <br /> this building is down to our minimum, it is really very tight. At the end of the day,this whole <br /> walk right here is four (4) feet and a couple of inches, again, it is adequate to the typical <br /> sidewalk, sidewalks are four(4) feet wide, and they still have the additional three (3) feet of <br /> the concrete Boardwalk. They went through a series of meetings with Sunny Isles Beach, <br /> Shoreline Agency, Miami-Dade County, DERM, Corp of Engineers,and South Florida Water <br /> Management. They look at it only from their perspective and so we really had to negotiate <br /> with everybody. They understood what we had to do and they suggested these pods that will <br /> be located on the concrete bulkhead as elements of green, and they developed a beacon that <br /> captures the two(2)conditions that are going to end up happening throughout the Boardwalk. <br /> It shows the concrete bulkhead in this particular part of the site received beautiful pods with <br /> green on them and people walk on the paved area. There is approximately a six (6) inch <br /> difference between one and the other, and at a certain point it becomes more like three (3) <br /> inches but that is one condition. There are a couple of places where we get pinched real tight <br /> in which we then propose to have the paved area be flushed with the concrete bulkhead. In <br /> those situations we are introducing a safety guardrail because it gets pretty close to the water. <br /> No problem along a long stretch but towards the end about 30 feet or less there is an angle here <br /> on the existing concrete bulkhead and it gets pretty tight and so we end up with five (5) feet <br /> 4 <br />