2015-0917 Regular City Commission Meeting

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Summary Minutes: Regular City Commission Meeting September 17, 2015 City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida I OA. A Resolution of the City Commission of the City of Sunny Isles Beach, Florida; Requesting a Revision to the Declaration of Restrictions to Modify the Limitation on Daycare Uses on the Property Located at 17395 North Bay Road, Subject to Certain Conditions; Attached Hereto as Exhibit "A": Providing the City Manager and the City Attorney with the Authority to Do All Things Necessary to Effectuate this Resolution; Providing for an Effective Date. Action: City Clerk Hines read the title. and Planning & Zoning Administrator Claudia Hasbun reported this is a request from the Applicant, Sunny Isles Daycare Corp., to modifi, a recorded Declaration of Restrictions for the property located at 17395 North Bay Road. The request is to permit the extension of an approved daycare. This Declaration is required to be modified prior to the Application being heard for Hearing 4PZ2015 -01 [Item 6A]. This resolution may be approved or denied by the Commission. Public Speakers: Stanley Price, Esq. Stanley Price, Esq., representing Sunny Isles Daycare, said just so he understands, this is going to be conducted as a legislative matter, and City Attorney Ottinot said yes. Mr. Price said for the record that he is stating an objection but that they will continue. In 1995 he was asked by some community activists including David Samson to meet and discuss the possible creation of a city of Sunny Isles Beach. He had the privilege of working on the first Charter for this City along with his partner Lynn Dannheisser, Esq., who ultimately became the City's first City Attorney. At the time of the creation there was a vision by the founders as to what this city is going to look like. The demographics of the city were completely different in 1995, and the creation of the City in 1997 than it is less than 20 years later. There was more of an elderly population here, there were very few young children, in fact at that time there were approximately 270 children under the age of five (5) years old. The City felt it was important to take advantage of the oceanfront. and determined that is where most of their density was going to be placed within the City. They also took care in regard to commercial space but they found a major lapse in recreational areas for the City. Mr. Price said what the City has done in the past 18 years is dramatic. It has become a model of what a Park system should be, there is a linear Park almost all the way on the south of 15 ,d to Haulover, and there is park land, Samson Park and the like throughout the City, and that was the vision of the City. As we evolved the City got younger, the last census was in 2010, there were about 100 children under the age of five (5) years old in this City. You had a five -fold increase from the 1990 census. The City reacted that there was a lack of educational facilities to serve the needs of the people in this City, and so they created a school which had become not only utilized but over utilized. That has now 'caused the Commission to reconsider, and on your agenda this evening there is an item to approve an architectural contract for close to $2.2 Million to build another facility adjacent to this property on one acre of land with 550 students programed for that facility. Mr. Price said that they have been in this process now for almost a year. What they are asking for tonight is for the Commission to release a Covenant of record which is authorized by the terms of the Covenant that may be amended by a majority vote of this Commission. They are asking because there is a need in this City, just as there is a need for Parks, schools,