2015-0716 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting July 16,2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach,Florida and all truck traffic on 183`' Street. In the first plan we submitted to City staff we had all of our customers entering the site from 183`'Street,staff didn't like that. And so we reinstituted the existing traffic pattern, meaning the customers coming from the north will enter from Collins Avenue, and customers coming from the south will be able to enter at 183`' Street • but significantly farther away from the intersection of 183rd and Atlantic Boulevard. In the original approval, the roof of our parking garage was to be trellised with vines and plants but unfortunately they go bad, and so Publix decided to spend the extraibluck and make it'a solid roof to the parking garage so that anyone else in the neighborhood looking down would not see growth but a solid roof. Lastly, your condition in the original approval was for them to underground utilities from their west boundary line all the way toy Collins Avenue. Between that, there was an intervening piece of property that we could not really accommodate. As a result, we asked the City could we bring it to our eastern boundary line and then give the City the money to make that connection to Collins Avenue as part of its undergrounding program. And so one of the conditions in your approval tonight is that we will bond $200,000 toward the money for the cost of that undergrounding to take it from their property to Collins Avenue. In the event that is not enough they agreed to pay the difference. In the event if the City does a better job than we could do and you actually bring it in for less, you will refund us. Again, no variances and no changes to the building. it Mr. Schulman said one good thing that came as a result of them not going to FDOT and Public Works first, since they are not changing the building super structure itself they have continued to basically do the building permit plans for the building itself. Whereas most developers would have stepped back and said if we change the building, because it takes months and hundreds of thousands of dollars to do building permit plans.) We continued to do those building permit plans and so once the Commission approves the Ingress and egress, the building is virtually ready to go into the Building Permit process. We are looking forward to filing for our Building Permit in August because we know that one of the desires of the City is to get a brand new state of the art Florida Riviera Publix as soon as possible. One of the other changes to this plan is that we have no objections from!our neighbor. Architect Bill Fisher presented renderings of the changes in the site plait., The changes are strictly functional and as coordination with the County and FDOT. Car coming off from Collins Avenue will come in at a right end only on a one-way drive and they can access the garage through an internal drive staying off from 183`' Street. If you are:heading north, you can also get to that one-way drive from 183rd Street because what is happening now, as everyone knows, the school backs up during pickup hours. We also have a small drop-off area ample for four(4)cars at the front door but the intent is that they would go to the parking garage entry. Trucks entering the site would be coming from the north, there is no access from the south, and so they would come in on Collins Avenue, circle in and back in and they would be recessed into the building by 53 feet, and then when they pull out, they would pull straight out onto Collins Avenue heading south. In the previous site plan they were coming in on 183"1, entering into the loop, right now they are totally off from It Street, and that includes the local delivery trucks and also the semi-trucks. The staging isjin the area adjacent to where our loading dock is now adjacent to the seawall during the construction. Again, the building stays the same as it is. No changes to the exterior or aesthetics of the building, the elevations, no proposed changes. Another functional item, Publix t' uld rather not do the trellis and the greenery, and that is from their experience, it just doesn•t work. What they have proposed is a multi-colored roof, single ply roof to give it some variance. All the