2015-0716 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes:Regular City Commission Meeting July 16,2015 City of Sunny Isla Beach,Florida ten (10) feet on Collins Avenue. Commissioner Aelion said then ten (10) feet of landscape, ro and so we have the sidewalk, we have the road, then we have the side ad which is about five or six feet. Ms. Hasbun showed on the rendering where the sidewalk is, and the ten- foot easement, but the landscaping buffer will not be ten feet, it would be fifteen(15) feet in total. Commissioner Aelion said which means there is ten-feet actual green, and Ms. Hasbun said that is what she wants to clarify, the green element that is the easement per se but they will have to accommodate other aspects of their design. Commissioner Aelion said he understands that like the hedging, etc., landscaping is something very attractive. Today we basically have almost no land, we have a little bush there, and so could we eat, for the lack of a better term, part of that proposed landscape to make it much thinner and to gain, and he understands the Mayor's point, that the necking at the corner which is the gas station, it is not going to be viable, but at least most of the Publix linear footage, could that be a basis for expansion of four to five feet on the width of the road? City Manager Russo said there is one thing that you have to keep in mind that has not been mentioned here yet, and that is our City designated off Collins Avenue a bike lane, and that is an extra wide sidewalk that was done for that purpose. Commissioner Aelion said the bike lane is temporary because in the future if they open the road as waslmentioned here by Mr. Shulman, then the bike lane would be on the back street north to south which is the North Bay Road extension, and so that will be eliminated, the 183`d Street bike lane. The point that Commissioner Goldman brought up ideally if we would havelinstead of a two- lane street, a three-lane street, it would go a long way to alleviate the',future because we know the coming impacts that Commissioner Goldman had pointed out. His point being we present to the landlord on the south the effort that we did to get a few footage, four or five feet, and on the north side landlord would give us also another four or five feet to allow the extra lane in which case it would go a long way to help. Ms. Hasbun said we will have to consider also that we have requested in the past to install Medjool Palm Trees along 183`d Street, and probably we won't have to phase with the lane changes and to bring that up for the Commission's consideration, and probably another Medjool Palm will have to be placed in there. Also in this proposal for Phase I, they were fighting for every square inch of landscaping, and so if we move anything it will have to be granted also. Commissioner Aelion said an Architectural Landscaper are creative and they can make an appearance extremely beautiful with a five to six jten-foot hedge like the two-foot hedge. City Attorney Ottinot said for clarification, is the ten-foot landscape buffer part of meeting the landscape requirement in the Code? Ms. Hasbun said they are couhting that space for the landscaping, and so it is a requirement. City Attorney Ottinot said then if they don't have that space will they need a variance? Ms. Hasbun said yes probably because they are right at the edge. City Attorney Ottinot said from a legal/zoning perspective a variance is never good. Commissioner Aelion said the architect and the developer gave a very beautiful rendering of the new roof, he likes it a like, he just doesn't want the situation that this is something visual that we see on a picture and then in reality it will almost look like a blank roof with one color. Architect Bill Fisher said it was designed with three(3) different colors which will be maintained. The way it is depicted on the rendering is the same that it will be. i Vice Mayor Gatto asked if there is a mechanism to prevent parents from picking up their 14 l