2015-0716 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting July I6,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida Action: [City Clerk's Note: An approved site plan sheet was distributed prior to the meeting. See additional action under Item 4A.] Mayor Scholl gave opening remarks on zoning procedures/decorum. City Clerk Hines read a disclaimer for the Zoning hearing, and administered the oath to witnesses. City Attorney Ottinot asked if there were any Ex Parte Disclosures and each member of the Commission said they .head met with the Attorney, developer and/or Architect to discuss the Application. City Planner Claudia Hasbun reported the Applicant is seeking approval of a site plan modification of an approved site plan. The Applicant is requesting: (1) a new traffic circulation pattern for ingress and egress of trucks on Collins Avenue; (2) an ingress for customer vehicles on Collins Avenue with an elimination of vehicles egress on Collins Avenue; (3) a solid roof covering instead of the trellis system with landscaping; and (4) a modification to the requirement to underground utilities from 183`d Street to Collins Avenue to exclude the gas station property. The Site Plan modification has been reviewed by staff and consultants, and the consultants had provided comments that the Applicant has agreed to address at Building Permitting. Based on review of the application, they find that the application is consistent with the City's Comprehensive Plan and Land Development Regulations subject to all the conditions stipulated in the report. The conditions stipulated in the previous Resolution remain active such as the 50-foot right-of-way easement. Public Speakers: Clifford A. Schulman, Esq.; Bill Fisher, Architect; Durl n Doreiro Clifford A. Schulman, Esq. representing Publix Super Markets, said we are not going to change the building itself, no variances, nothing really having to do with:the structure of the Publix itself except for the roof. One of the conditions of our prior approval was subsequent to the approval we had to get approval of all the other agencies that would be involved, FDOT, Miami-Dade County Department of Public Works, etc. They took their approved plan to those departments and unfortunately they rejected the plan. They'felt the ingress and egress was dangerous, and they asked them to reconsider it. They did so and resubmitted the plan to the City, and the City felt that it was dangerous, they did not want our first submittal. So what they did was to change it again and came back with la plan. This time they went to FDOT and the County Public Works Department first before they submitted their last site plan to the City. The site plan before you today has been approved by those departments. After the City Commission's approval tonight, they will move on to the Building Permit. Mr. Schulman introduced his team here tonight, the developers of the Publix Duran Doreiro and Steve Branden, the Architect Bill Fisher who will explain the changes that were made, and their Traffic Engineer Juan Espinosa from David Plummer & Associates. For the purposes of the record, they will incorporate in the record, everything in this file PZ2015- 12, and the traffic reports of David Plummer& Associates, and The Corradino Group. Also the record that was made before the Commission for the approval of 1:111Z-141 which was approved on July 17, 2014 for the original site plan as well as the resumes and the expert resumes that they submitted at that time. Mr. Schulman said one of the most important things that they tried to focus in on and the City, particularly City Manager Russo, was the impacts on 183`d Street which is one of the big sensitivities of this City. They heard you, right now all of the truck traffic servicing the Publix site, uses 183`d Street. It goes to the back, to the intersection of14ttlantic and 183`d, and then to the back of the store. One of the major changes is that they have eliminated any to